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...none of the facts even hint at the revolution to which Matisse's pictures stand witness. This law student from Le Cateau in the north of France saw the picture plane flat and saw it whole. He began treating it as a design rather than an imaginary view. A pattern in the wallpaper might come forward to take equal authority with a fruitbowl on a table. He saw women as outlines-a grace, a structure of volume, a presence in a landscape-and abandoned nuances of flesh tones in favor of vigor of composition. Perhaps as much as Picasso...
...dozen years have passed since Matisse died at the ripe age of 84, at a time when it could be fairly said that he was-with Picasso-France's most popular artist. He had had two museums (at Le Cateau-Cambresis, his home town, and in Cimiez, above Nice) devoted to his works; his oils had commanded five-figure prices for more than 20 years. Currently, the first comprehensive retrospective of Matisse's work since his death, totaling 345 works in all media, is traveling across the U.S.* The exhibition (see color pages) magnificently highlights his achievement...
...Just Finished." The film begins with routine shots of Matisse's birthplace (Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied. The narrator tells nothing of what makes Matisse one of the greatest painters living. But the moment the camera closes in on the 78-year-old master himself, Matisse takes charge. Blinking a little behind his gold-rimmed glasses (the floodlights apparently bothered him), Matisse faces the camera and his invisible interrogator with a grandfatherly smile, direct and forceful...
Magdelon used her beauty as a means to pleasure; Cateau used hers as an end in itself. Magdelon fell in love right & left; Cateau, barring her affair with the gold-leaf-like Due de Candale, was virtually incapable of love, even of much pleasure. In middle age Magdelon went for young men as some women go horsy; Cateau settled down to a kindly, lukewarm, almost suburban domesticity with a lover only twelve years her junior...
...Shrewd Cateau became one of the richest women in France; feckless Magdelon sank deeper & deeper into debt...