The parallel lives of two compelling and competitive artists and their recurrent engagements with desire and mortality. Matisse and Picasso achieved extraordinary prominence during their lifetimes. They have become cultural icons, standing not only for different kinds of art but also for different ways of living. 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 ethereal realm of being. 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. 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.
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"Brilliantly details the strange union of this very odd couple."
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Jack Flam is Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at the City University of New York. His articles and reviews on African art and nineteenth- and twentieth-century European and American art have appeared in Art Bulletin, Artforum, Art in America, Art Journal, ArtNews, African Arts, and The New York Review of Books. The author of numerous books, he lectures internationally and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim and a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Excellent book and well written. It will also make a good reference/cross reference book for those who may wish to research and compare with existing published work. Jack Flam has also given good descriptive information on the artwork.
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Lucid, Riviting Artist Stories
27 July 2004
By Artist Barbara Garro
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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 to see anything else.
I found this book to be much more exciting then typical biographies that include all the boring parts of people's lives. Here you get all the interesting parts with all the boring parts left out. I read every word and recommend the book without reservation. In fact, I believe every art student needs to read this book, every artist, every art affictionado.
I found this book to be much more exciting then typical biographies that include all the boring parts of people's lives. Here you get all the interesting parts with all the boring parts left out. I read every word and recommend the book without reservation. In fact, I believe every art student needs to read this book, every artist, every art affictionado.
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Excellent Juxtoposition
21 Jun 2003
By Sergio Remon
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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 one of the few constants in Picasso's life, always keeping the paintings that he had of Matisse. These two heavyweights, more than anybody, have influenced the way we make art today. This books does a great job fleshing out the relationship between these two artists and how they affected each other in a well written and highly accesible format. An excellent book worthy of the excellent artists.
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Illustrations that Don't
30 Aug 2012
By Gillian C. Finnegan
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I actually ordered this book for what one reviewer calls the "boring parts" and found it to be better suited for people more knowledgeable about art than I. It did give me a better understanding of the two artists and their work and I don't regret buying the book.
I bought the paperback edition. Sadly, the illustrations not only were all black and white, but were so small and poorly printed that details mentioned by Mr. Flam were impossible to discern. I used books I already own, as well as the internet, to locate copies of the particular works and actually see what the points he was making were. The work deserves far better than these sub par illustrations. I hope the hard cover edition does a better job.
I bought the paperback edition. Sadly, the illustrations not only were all black and white, but were so small and poorly printed that details mentioned by Mr. Flam were impossible to discern. I used books I already own, as well as the internet, to locate copies of the particular works and actually see what the points he was making were. The work deserves far better than these sub par illustrations. I hope the hard cover edition does a better job.
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