Tag Archives: Henri Matisse

peacenik chapel

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) IT’S hard for us to remember during thee heady days of conservative religious political activism. but, back in the 1950′s and 1960′s, the church was a bastion of liberal and progressive thought and action. religious activists … Continue reading →

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la boheme : mannered art without manners

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Dave

Amedeo Modigliani. A minor modernist? ” All that was divine in Modigliani sparkled through a sort of gloom ” It is one of those only the good die young stories, terminating at the premature age of thirty-five. There was no … Continue reading →

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totem: live and let die

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Dave

It is an art that knew how to live, and equally, and art that knows how to die. The totem poles of the Pacific are vanishing into the earth. The last totem poles stand on deserted beaches on the edge … Continue reading →

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white men and black cats: fraternal disorder

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Art

the cult of the black cat…… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is a small shopping bag (the sort of thing to put a few nails in) from Copeland Lumber – a local northwest hardware/lumber store. I believe they’re still in business, … Continue reading →

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balzac in tormented bronze: oveheated with emotional excess

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Dave

When is a sculpture not just a sculpture? That it is so intertwined with politics that its initial artistic impulse becomes lost in the quagmire of the partisan. That is what transpired with the sculpture of Honore de Balzac executed … Continue reading →

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MATISSE: Cut,Paste & Taste

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Dave

That Matisse would abandon oil painting and adopt a new technique so late in his career was a surprise to many people, although it need not have been. Paper cutouts were, of course, convenient for a semi-invalid, but Matisse had … Continue reading →

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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 →

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PICASSO’S REFLEX ANXIETY :2 1/2 Men & Close Encounter of the 3 1/2 Kind

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Dave

Perhaps more than any other artist, Pablo Picasso depicted the dark side; the Darth Vader of the human psyche, as well as the positive and the beautiful…This departure by Picasso from the so-called “civilized” and classical influences of Western art … Continue reading →

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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 →

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MATISSE: Line Dance With Color

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Dave

Matisse emerged from WWII with a reputation among living painters second only to that of Picasso. The fresh interest in Matisse was stimulated by a late flowering in many phases of his art- drawings, book designs, and oil paintings- which … Continue reading →