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Could Paris produce a new generation of painters comparable to its aging masters? Matisse, Bonnard and Rouault were all crowding 80, Picasso and Braque were close to 70. Utrillo, Vlaminck and Derain were old too, and out of the swim as well. Surrealism was all but dead. As of last week, only one "group" of painters in Paris had any recognizable form. They were "the twelve."* Nine of the twelve have already had shows this season...
...started from the four cardinal points, which are Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Bonnard. They were the armored spearhead that broke through the enemy defenses. We have been the fighting infantry which poured through the gap they opened; we widened the breach and eventually we will rout the enemy. We may not be the creators they were-time alone will decide that. But we did achieve one thing: we have changed . . . that mass of more or less enlightened public for whom those four masters were undecipherable phenomena. It is a fact that now people make an effort to see without their...
Paris museumgoers noted with complacent smiles that most of the exhibition's far-flung artists painted with a Paris accent. Parisians preferred the genuine article, in an upstairs room full of Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard and Rouault...
Jules Remains, marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), was initiated into the august French Academy. He wore the traditional brocaded, green dress suit and the dress sword, but he skipped the traditional speech praising his predecessor. Predecessor Abel Bonnard had been kicked out of the Academy as a collaborationist...
...where he's going, but I never know where I'll land." Completely unpretentious, he admits to being influenced by other artists: "But that's very good! You can't possibly invent painting all by yourself." Paintings that fail to pan out never discourage Pierre Bonnard. "I always work on paintings that miscarry," he says, "They pose exciting problems. It's good to fail...