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...that this experience influenced her  focus on  Japanese-American issues. Although much of Alfaro’s work focuses on Japanese-American identity, she has also dealt with subjects ranging dramatically from Greek mythology to biographical pieces based on figures such as Martha Mitchell and Pablo Picasso...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rosana Y. Alfaro | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...teacher told me, ‘I like the looseness of your style, and I want you to see this,’” recalled Carle, who was especially inspired by Picasso and Matisse...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Author Encourages Childhood Whims | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...famous line from Andr Gide: "Do not understand me too quickly." Isn't that what we so often do with Matisse? We rush to indulge in the pleasures his art provides without coming to grips with its complexities. Compared with the Cubist-period work of his near contemporary Picasso - one picture after another that can be like a cheese grater for the eyes - even the most recondite Matisse is pretty beguiling. All those canvases flush with rose pink and aqua, filled with dancers and flowers and fruit - it's hard to look at them and remember the tough-minded choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leap Forward: Matisse in Chicago | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...even as he struggled to gain a wider public, Matisse was losing his position as leader of the Parisian avant-garde to Picasso, 12 years his junior. Young artists were fascinated by the militant astringency of Cubism and its systematic means of exploding form and space. Compared with the bristling brown surfaces in Picasso and Braque, even Matisse's fiercest pictures, with their dizzying color, could look a bit "decorative" - a dismissive word thrown at him all the time. (See some artists from the 2010 Whitney Biennial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leap Forward: Matisse in Chicago | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Etruscan, Greek, Chinese, and Islamic vases find a place among the vast collection of the Harvard Art Museum alongside the work of European masters like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso. Only a few blocks away, Pueblo ceramics from the American Southwest and pottery from the Moche civilization in Peru reside in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. While the few blocks that separate the museums are rather small, the assumptions motivating the division between art objects and ethnographic objects are significant. Recently, though, steps have been taken both on and off campus to complicate the division between fine...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Artifacts Take Their Rightful Place as Art | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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