Tag Archives: Hilary Spurling

HENRI SCISSORHANDS

It was the final flowering of Henri Matisse. He was ever simplifying, ever synthesizing, acting younger at eighty than he was at thirty. He sat in his wheel chair and put aside paintbrush for scissors, filling his sunset years with … Continue reading

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MATISSE & THE VIOLENCE OF COLOR: Painting Safari

The first “event” in twentieth century  art took place in Paris, regarded as the cultural capital of Western civilization, in 1905.  This exhibition showed the influence of nineteenth century developments of colour and distorted line from artists such as Van Gogh and Gauguin. … 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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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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