Tag Archives: Georges Duthuit

PICASSO & IDEALS OF PEACE: Better Red than Fed

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Dave

Pablo Picasso found himself in Paris during World War II. Stranded……. Overall, reading through Matisse’s correspondence with Camoin in La Revue de l’Art (12, 1971) makes me suspect that Matisse’s behavior during Vichy had little to do directly with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alan Riding, Albert Camus, Aristide Maillol, Carl Goldstein, Charles Camoin, Dave Douglas, Dave Douglas Duncan, Demetrios Galanis, Dina Vierny, Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Ernst Junger, Florence Gould, Frederic Spotts, Georges Duthuit, Gerhard Heller, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jean Cocteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Paulhan, Leonard Cohen, Louis Aragon, Marcel Jouhandeau, Marie-Louise Bousquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Max Jacob, Megan Meighan, Michele C. Cone, Michele Leight, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Fournier, Ramon Fernandez, Richard Eder, Riva Castleman, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Rosalind Krauss, Sacha Guitry, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Spott | 5 Comments

MATISSE: War Years and the Morals of Color

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Dave

Certainly, the war years seems to bring out some ambiguous behavior on the part of French artists in occupied France. On the one hand, it greatly reduced the competition from foreign sources and citizens not of the “vieux souche” , … Continue reading →