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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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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.
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.
About the Author
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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