Tag Archives: Ambroise Vollard

EXUBERANT BUT NOT ABERRANT: No Orgies Of COLOR

Henri Matisse was termed a “wild beast”, a fauve. Traditional art was soon to become an irrelevancy, an anachronism, as experimental art began to develop its own audience, its own markets, and its own rationales apart from being merely anti-traditionalist. It seemed … Continue reading

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MATISSE:An Inner Loneliness of Precious Time

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known….No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.( Oscar Wilde ) The birth of a wild … Continue reading

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UNORDAINED PASSION:AN AVANT GARDE DIVINE MERCY

If you judged these things solely by press headlines, you would assume that the pope was about to face a lynch mob of jeering Protestants and vengeful atheists. Most Britons, we are told, are disgusted at the thought of spending … Continue reading

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