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...Matisse in Morocco," which opened Sunday at New York City's Museum of Modern Art (it was at the National Gallery in Washington through the spring, and will go to Moscow and Leningrad in the fall and winter), is what used to be called a connoisseurs' show. It covers a short time in a long life. Henri Matisse visited Morocco just twice, in early 1912 and again in the winter of 1912-13. Hence the exhibition is fairly small, only 24 paintings and a large group of sketchbook drawings. It can be seen without sore feet and framed...
...bonus, some of the paintings are being seen in the U.S. for the first time. Most of the best work that Morocco evoked from Matisse was bought by those two pioneer collectors Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morosov and has remained in Leningrad's Hermitage and Moscow's Pushkin museums since the Russian revolution. As no reproduction has ever done justice to the peculiar intensity of the thin, washed, yet highly saturated color Matisse developed in Morocco, one is grateful that the components of this phase of his work have at last been reunited. Matisse was a mature painter...
...minutely realist style and their mildly prurient interests to Fez and Marrakech, and went back to Paris with both intact. To be influenced as a painter by Islamic art -- architecture, rugs, tiles, cloth, miniatures -- was inconceivable, like "going native." The imperious gaze went only one way; its view of Morocco was colonialism in paint...
...Algeria in 1906. In 1910 he was bowled over by an exhibition of the art of Islam in Munich and by a visit to the Moorish monuments of Andalusia. As a result, he recalled, "I felt the passion for color develop in me." This was dramatically confirmed by Morocco, where Matisse's aesthetic of decoration took full hold. Flat pattern, inlaid motifs, sharp conjunctions of highly decorative forms -- as in the wonderful Basket of Oranges, 1912, with the sharp forms of citrus fruit and their leaves competing against the more diffuse pattern of the flowered silk drape on which they...
From now on, they had better. Levy, 52, an immigrant from Morocco and former construction worker who has never earned a college degree, has become the strongest leader of Israel's increasingly numerous and powerful Sephardic (Oriental) Jews. Many Israelis, in fact, suggest that the derision he has encountered reflects resentment of the Sephardim by long-dominant Ashkenazi Jews. He has proved a shrewd infighter in domestic posts, and though he is the first Israeli Foreign Minister who is unable to speak English, he is fluent in Arabic and French...