Sassoon kandinsky biography
- Wassily kandinsky Biography 18661944.
- A Childhood Autobiography; The Incomplete Biography of a Child Who Saw Nothing but a Fugitive Land, So He Shouted: These Are My Traps, O Sandgrouse!
- He often diluted his paints and turned his pastels into paste, then used them over paint.
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Matisse threw himself into painting “like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.”Photograph from Alamy
Henri Matisse, unlike the other greatest modern painter, Pablo Picasso, with whom he sits on a seesaw of esteem, hardly exists as a person in most people’s minds. One pictures a wary, bearded gent, owlish in glasses—perhaps with a touch of the pasha about him, from images of his last years in Vence, near Nice, in a house full of sumptuous fabrics, plants, freely flying birds, and comely young models. Many know that Matisse had something to do with the invention of Fauvism, and that he once declared, weirdly, that art should be like a good armchair. A few recall that, in 1908, he inspired the coinage of the term “cubism,” in disparagement of a movement that would eclipse his leading influence on the Parisian avant-garde, and that he relaxed by playing the violin. Beyond such bits and pieces, there is the art, whose glory was maintained and renewed in many phases until the artist’s death, in 1954: preternatural color, yielding line, boldness and subtlety, incessant s
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