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ART AS LIFE.(Henri Matisse)(Biography)

The New Yorker

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Henri Matisse, unlike the other greatest modern painter, Pablo Picasso, with whom he sits on a seesaw of esteem, hardly exists as a person in most people's minds. One pictures a wary, bearded gent, owlish in glasses--perhaps with a touch of the pasha about him, from images of his last years in Vence, near Nice, in a house full of sumptuous fabrics, plants, freely flying birds, and comely young models. Many know that Matisse had something to do with the invention of Fauvism, and that he once declared, weirdly, that art should be like a good armchair. A few recall that, in 1908, he inspired the coinage of the term "cubism," in disparagement of a movement that would eclipse ...

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