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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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ARCADIAN FANTASY: Mediterranean State of Mind

One summer early in the twentieth century,Henri Matisse took his family to the seashore. There, in the light of the Mediterranean, a new way of painting came forth. …. Picasso was the one who suggested that Henri Matisse and his … Continue reading

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DETONATING VOCABULARY: Invisible Fame Of An Anti-Language

The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction. — Mary Douglas A publisher … Continue reading

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SEURAT: Quest For The Redemption Of MATTER

Studies of Georges Seurat have usually focused on the subject matter; but there can be little doubt that the painter himself nailed his flag firmly to the mast of technical innovation. Technique was, as he wrote to his friend, the … Continue reading

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SEURAT: Trying To Connect The DOTS

…Seurat suspended work on the large canvas until the fall. When Seurat resumed work on La Grande Jatte in October 1885, he incorporated his new divisionist technique and color theories that he began formulating during the summer while painting in Grandcamp. For … Continue reading

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SEURAT & THE PSYCHOLOGY of GEOMETRY: Point By Point

Over the past several decades, many scholars have attempted to explain the meaning of this great composition. For some, it shows the growing middle class at leisure. Others see it as a representation of social tensions between modern city dwellers … Continue reading

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SEURAT:ANY GIVEN SUNNY AFTERNOON

Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte…. sunlight sailboats, parasols and pets: It is easy to take this cheery summer scene for granted… You may never do so again. In his “Confessions of a Young Man” George Moore … Continue reading

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INSTANT GRATIFICATION:Mysterious Strangers of the New Dispensation

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.” ( J.M. Keynes ) An aristocratic disdain permeated the Bloomsbury group. A contempt for the masses as well as the bourgeois. They were … Continue reading

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