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...lawyer when--like Degas and Manet before him--he abandoned the law to paint. Matisse came to Paris in 1891 and found it vibrating with artistic activity. Seurat and Van Gogh had died only a few years before and Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Lautrec, Redon, Henri Rousseau, and Rodin were very much alive and active in the city. During his first years in Paris, Matisse studied with Gustave Moreau who was unprejudiced against experimental art even though known work was a continuation of Delacroix along traditional lines. With Moreau's encouragement, Matisse did many "free" copies of masterworks in Louvre...
...Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair. He became a syndicated columnist, peddling a unique amalgam of show-biz snappy sayings and schmalz. He collected art the way other people collect neckties-he once tried to buy the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Rodin collection-and he gorged on the stock market as if it were so much bagels...
...Swiss impressionist painter, Giacometti went to Paris in 1922 to study with Rodin's pupil Bourdelle, and settled in the tiny Montparnasse studio where he worked the rest of his life...
...allied with the surrealists, until he wearied of creating what he called "these mental reconstructions." He returned to sculpting from life, paring the figure down to its bare armatures. He became the last of those School of Paris sculptors who, since Rodin, have tried to probe beneath the skin to the essence of life...
...powerful a stimulant to a city's pride both art and architecture can be come. Its arch has given the city a symbol recognizable round the world, and already its citizenry has rallied. Last month an out door exhibition of outstanding examples of such famous modern sculpture as Rodin's St. John the Baptist, a Calder stabile, and Bauhaus-Teacher Gerhard Marcks's Three Graces were set out against the background of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Many of the works came from private St. Louis collections. If the city lives up to its Medici potential, many will...