LAST DAYS FOR "MATISSE:radical invention 1913 1917" @MOMA
read in NYTIMES Museum and Gallery Listings
Museum of Modern Art: ‘Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917’; closes on Monday. With more than 100 paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, this magnificent show offers a close and extended reading of the most arduous years of Matisse’s long career when, spurred by Picasso and Cubism, he became more transparently and aggressively himself. He emerges here as a driven, even tormented artist, increasingly willing to risk bracingly fresh and unfinished-looking paintings that revealed not just his working process, but also an intense emotional concentration. While hardly Expressionist, this doesn’t exactly exemplify the Olympian detachment habitually attributed to him. (212) 708-9400, moma.org. (Smith)
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/arts/design/08art.html?ref=design
Museum of Modern Art: ‘Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917’; closes on Monday. With more than 100 paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, this magnificent show offers a close and extended reading of the most arduous years of Matisse’s long career when, spurred by Picasso and Cubism, he became more transparently and aggressively himself. He emerges here as a driven, even tormented artist, increasingly willing to risk bracingly fresh and unfinished-looking paintings that revealed not just his working process, but also an intense emotional concentration. While hardly Expressionist, this doesn’t exactly exemplify the Olympian detachment habitually attributed to him. (212) 708-9400, moma.org. (Smith)
source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/08/arts/design/08art.html?ref=design
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