Tag Archives: Leo Stein

americans abroad: in search of “classical” education

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Dave

The Henry James archetype of the American abroad: Generally painters, novelists or historians of the arts. Almost all of them idlers who live on unearned income and found in Switzerland an ideal tax haven; pensioners an elderly couples stretching their … Continue reading →

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PICASSO, Visual Violence and the Unbinding of Desire: JUST BECAUSE

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Dave

After the first World War, Andre Breton came to Picasso’s studio….. saw Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and recognised it as the definitive modern masterpiece. Breton, the leader of the surrealists, saw in it a painting about the revolutionary menace of the … Continue reading →

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MATISSE: “Abnormal to the Last Degree”

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Dave

The man who created this exotic and compelling art was not easy to know. In 1913, the New York Times dispatched Clara T. MacChesney to interview “The King of the Fauves” in his home outside Paris. Aware that Matisse’s work … Continue reading →

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MATISSE:CUTOUTS BETWEEN REASON and FEELING

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Dave

Ever simplifying and ever synthesizing; younger at eighty than at thirty, Matisse sat in his wheel chair, put aside paintbrush for scissors, and filled his sunset years with patterns of pure color. … “Matisse was the most important of the … Continue reading →

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