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| Title | : | The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.95 (622 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679434283 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
drkhimxz said First of the two volume standard biography of a Master Artist. Visiting NYC for two weeks coincident with the limited exhibition of Matisse's work at the Museum of Modern Art, I was finally driven to begin reading the two volume biography by Spurling. This comment follows completion of the first volume. Tomorrow on to the second. It has been quite useful to have both the fine MoMA exhibition and additional works from its permanent collection available as well as the classics at the Met, whi. "Non stop highlighting action!" according to Scott E. Schryver. Couldn't put this wonderful book down! Spent many a late night and early morning reading, pondering, and highlighting the insightful passages. The book is very well researched and the abundance of information and it's relevance to Matisse's life does not go unnoticed. It is first and foremost a book about Matisse but I would be remise If I didn't mention the valuable historical aspect of the book and how well Spurling ties the h. Henri Matisse Loved the Book. Among the Most Insightful Biographies I Have Read. I Felt "There" - The Pain, The Longing, The Frustration, The Few Joys, The Times. Henri Matisse's Wife Deserved a Gold Star. She was Devoted, Loyal, Loving. She was "The Glue" that held Matisse's Ability to Continue Painting. Ginger Talbot Omaha NE
What lay ahead were the summers in St-Tropez and Collioure; the outpouring of "Fauve" paintings; Matisse's experiments with sculpture; and the beginnings of acceptance by dealers and collectors, which, by 1908, put his life on a more secure footing.Hilary Spurling's discovery of the Humbert Affair and its effects on Matisse's health and work is an extraordinary revelation, but it is only one aspect of her achievement. For years he worked unceasingly toward the style by which we know him now. But Matisse never gave up. The authorities, reeling from the divisive Dreyfus case, smoothed over the so-called Humbert Affair, and did it so well that the story of this twenty-year scam--and the humiliation and ruin its climax brought down on the unsuspecting Matisse and his family--have been erased from memory until now.It took many months for Matisse to come to terms with t
Matisse risked her respectable reputation by adopting Henri's first, illegitimate daughter), his brilliant ideas about art, and the years it took for his paintings to find their rightful audience. If all biographers wrote with Spurling's warmth, empathy, and intelligence, no one would likely want to read any other kind of book. It was her intention finally to give as much weight to Matisse's life as has been given to his work, but in the process of examining the man she sheds new light on the art as well. "Matisse was born in 1869 in northern France and grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois, near the Belgian border, on the drab, cold, wet beet fields of French Flanders. The Unknown Matisse
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