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Dubuffet, Derain, Chagall and Pascin each add to the transformation of nature to the canvas. Dubuffet uses a color scheme in his canvas entitled "Site avec 2 Personnages" (1982). The bright red strokes guide the eye through the painting. This method of color contour tracking is a unique method of painting (reminiscent of Van Gogh) that Dubuffet manipulates carefully...
...Pascin paints women, in their fleshy and full form. Their full-figuredness adds to their beauty rather than detracts from...
...these scenes of Greenwich Village bohemia were all Demuth did, he would be remembered as a minor aesthete, somewhere between Aubrey Beardsley and Jules Pascin, though arguably much superior to the latter. But Demuth was, by any standards, an exceptional watercolorist, and his still lifes and figure paintings, with their wiry contours and exquisite sense of color, the tones discreetly manipulated by blotting, are among the best things done in that medium by an American...
...Determined Hanging. Much of Pascin's life was a Sisyphean search for satiation. He decorated his endless parties with nude girls, recalls one writer, "as one might place flowers in a vase." Under his perennial black derby, he was sensuously ugly, with heavy features that had the thick texture of Dromedary dates. As he began to age, his art more and more portrayed the image of an old man teased by willing sprites. Only fetishes could further inflame his nudes; lesbian poses and green stockings added a salacious veneer to his final fleshy visions...
...Bank, that he could no longer cross a street without her. The passage of time frightened him so much, she recalled last week, that he once threw a grandfather's clock out of the window. But time caught up with him. In 1930, at the age of 45, Pascin slashed his wrists, wrote "Lucy, Forgive me" on the wall with his own blood, and finding death too slow in coming determinedly hanged himself from his studio door...