- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Exempt
- Studio: West Park Pictures
- DVD Release Date: 2 Feb 2009
- Run Time: 52 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B001JATWAO
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 61,774 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) are the acknowledged twin giants of modern art, between them having originated many of the most significant innovations of twentieth-century painting and sculpture. This film is an encounter with the two pioneers, two adventurers in painting, who opened new frontiers. In spite of their initial rivalry and their very different temperaments, each came to acknowledge the other as his only true equal, developing a close and complex relationship.
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You have to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at the time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he. --Picasso
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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These great masters inspired one another and this riveting documentary shows they still inspire today.
The presenter, an invisible presence, lays before us archive film clips, interviews with relatives and experts and glowing examples of a large number of their works.
The had different lifestyles - Matisse bourgeois in appearance and needing to travel and paint from life models, Picasso, bohemian and content to seek inspiration in his studio and his recollectons - but both unconventional in their search for new ways of expression.
They insired and echoed one an other. At the end of his life, between 1949 and 1951, Matisse designed the uplifting Chapel at Venc.Picasso responded by decorating a small 12th-century chapel which he imagined as a sort of "sanctuary of peace".
Their work has been shown together: in the winter of 1945--46 they had parallel exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and more recently at Tate Modern, London in the summer of 2002.
A review of this latter exhibition covers some of the material in Philippe Kohly;s film
The presenter, an invisible presence, lays before us archive film clips, interviews with relatives and experts and glowing examples of a large number of their works.
The had different lifestyles - Matisse bourgeois in appearance and needing to travel and paint from life models, Picasso, bohemian and content to seek inspiration in his studio and his recollectons - but both unconventional in their search for new ways of expression.
They insired and echoed one an other. At the end of his life, between 1949 and 1951, Matisse designed the uplifting Chapel at Venc.Picasso responded by decorating a small 12th-century chapel which he imagined as a sort of "sanctuary of peace".
Their work has been shown together: in the winter of 1945--46 they had parallel exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and more recently at Tate Modern, London in the summer of 2002.
A review of this latter exhibition covers some of the material in Philippe Kohly;s film
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
New footage I hadn't seen before. Fascinating insights into the two men and their relationship. More mutual admiration and less rivalry than other sources have implied. Well edited and presented.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
An excellent documentary, focussing on the friendship between the two artsits with lots of original footage. Good interviews with relatives as well as art critics. Recommended.
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