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[Jack Flam] ☆ Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions) ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions) Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiographical confession that was often charged with violence and explosive eroticism. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. In Matisse and Picasso, Jack Flam explores the compelling, competitive, parallel lives of these two arti
| Title | : | Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship (Icon Editions) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081339046X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. In contrast, Picasso became the exemplar of intense emotionality, of theatricality, of art as a kind of autobiographical confession that was often charged with violence and explosive eroticism. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. In Matisse and Picasso, Jack Flam explores the compelling, competitive, parallel lives of these two artists and their very different attitudes toward the idea of artistic greatness, toward the women they loved, and ultimately toward their confrontations with death.. Matisse, known for his restraint and intense sense of privacy, for his decorum and discretion, created an art that transcended daily life and conveyed a sensuality that inhabited an abstract and
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. In one passage, he finds the word "NON" ("a symmetrical word that asserts its negation in both directions") painted into the window grillwork between the husband-and-wife of Matisse's 1912 Conversation-a word that had been showing up in Picasso's work for the previous year. Flam locates similarly productive appropriations and reappropriations between the two painters over the years, so that anyone standing in line for the exhibition in Queens will profit from at least flipping through this direct, jargon-free study. . From Publishers Weekly Timed to coincide roughly with the opening of the blockbuster Matisse-Picasso exhibition's third and final stop, at New York's MoMA Q
A masterpiece of art exploration and explication John E. Drury Jack Flam provides the key to an in-depth understanding of Picasso and Matisse, their persons, the influences on them, their art and how they played off against each other. With clarity and insight, he compares and contrasts their well known and lesser known paintings by tying each to the tradition of the "pictorial rhetoric and conventional literary and biblical subjects of" Delacroix, the "unorthodox compositional modes" of Courbet a. Lucid, Riviting Artist Stories Imagine one tightly written book that can tell you what the art world was like for much of the 20th Century! Jack Flam is the man who did just that in "Matisse Picaso." Then imagine learning all about the lives of Matisse and Picasso and their loves along with their push-pull friendship and competition. After that get the skinny on the paintings both men painted. I never even saw all the -------- in Picasso's paintings. Now, it is hard. Excellent Juxtoposition Before there was Andy Warhol, the ultimate in art cool, there was Picasso. And before there was Picasso, there was Matisse. Picasso and his cronies used to make fun of Matisse's primitive style and threw fake darts at Matisse's portrait of his daughter, and people laughed in the salons at Matisse's Joy of Life but no artist influenced Picasso more than Matisse, from his works to his introduction to African and Iberian art, Matisse was
He lectures internationally and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.. He has written extensively on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art and his books include Matisse on Art, Matisse: the Man and His Art, 1869-1918, and Les peintures de Picasso: Un théâtre mental. Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art and Art
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