JOHN MURRAY - TALKING ABOUT MATISSE
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5
7pm to 9pm
Admission fee: $20
Please RSVP to Marte at marte@newartcenter.org
Refreshments and light dessert will be served
Matisse is old hat?
So let's move on and see where his awesome radical work has led in the hands of a new generation
Some have said that he was too decorative maybe some of his later work had a bit too much decorative gestalt but not the minimal unfinished pentimento pieces of the early teens
Minimal and incident laden at the same time questioning the history, presumptions and conceits of painting that work is as strong as always but where has rigorous painting gone? I mean I guess the raw and spacially open semi finished provisional work that Manet played with in 1875
Manet went to that glorious plane of questioning and breathless vertigo
And so did Matisse the new younger painters that I see now are too busy too full of guilt and afraid of failure.
So let's move on and see where his awesome radical work has led in the hands of a new generation
Some have said that he was too decorative maybe some of his later work had a bit too much decorative gestalt but not the minimal unfinished pentimento pieces of the early teens
Minimal and incident laden at the same time questioning the history, presumptions and conceits of painting that work is as strong as always but where has rigorous painting gone? I mean I guess the raw and spacially open semi finished provisional work that Manet played with in 1875
Manet went to that glorious plane of questioning and breathless vertigo
And so did Matisse the new younger painters that I see now are too busy too full of guilt and afraid of failure.
See you next week, john.
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