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...moderns have also found new means of making art enjoyable. Such men as Dufy, Chagall and Matisse, for example, have applied their free-wheeling philosophy primarily to color, laying it on canvas in broad, brilliant, arbitrary splashes, and raising it to an intensity never before equaled in Western painting. Rouault trowels on his colors like hot coals, achieving the richness and emotional impact of Gothic stained glass-which also shuts nature out. Braque, who is more interested in form than color, leads the eye on surprising new adventures by painting shapes that seem to shift and change as one looks...
...Georges Rouault feels "very tired" at 79. He lives in seclusion outside of Paris, painting his molten, haunting illustrations of the New Testament. Dark though they generally are, Rouault's religious works depend on color to convey his intense emotion. Far more self-critical than most moderns, Rouault two years ago burned 315 old, unfinished works he had come to dislike...
...arrived' at 50 it's not too serious; he may still be admired in a cafe if not in a museum and his hopes for the future are treated with respect. France's best painters-Picasso, Matisse, Rouault, Chagall, Braque, Utrillo, Derain, Dufy, Vlaminck and Léger-are all in their 60s and 70s. These young-old men are still the Alps of the modern art world...
...Renaissance overtones and technical eclat, Dali's canvas did no honor to its great subject. Compared with the religious paintings of such consistent moderns as Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse, Dali's was approximately as chill and shallow as a bent watch...
...project, in the '305, that gave Levine his first real chance to paint. He took a studio back in Boston's soot-filmed slums and began working with the tense brush strokes and smoldering colors of the expressionists he most admired: Rouault, Soutine, Kokoschka...