Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matisse, at 22, taken his degree and become a lawyer, as he intended to do when he reached Paris from le Cateau. Possibly, since Matisse has never exhibited any stubborn allegiance to the errors of the past, it would merely have postponed his entrance into the École des Beaux-Arts and his training under Bouguereau, Gustave Moreau and Gérôme. The tradition of these ateliers has been carried on since by such conventionalists as George de Forest Brush of the U. S. (who preceded Matisse in the classes...
...Fauves was a name which connoted merely an astonished and timidly inimical attitude of the public but it served as a better definition than the abstractions since invented by incoherently appreciative critics. Matisse was forbidden the Beaux-Arts studio because Parisians of that period took painting seriously. He was poor and went to Algeria where he picked up notions of design which have been clear in his painting ever since. A Russian merchant by the name of Stchoukine discovered him and took him to Moscow, to do murals in his music room...
...Annual Ball of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects, Astor Hotel, Manhattan...
...Beaux Arts Ball, Hotel Astor, Manhattan...