Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really expected Painter Henri Matisse to bother to answer the attack that British Royal Academy President Sir Alfred Munnings had made on his work (TIME, May 9). But last week Matisse did. Sitting up in bed in his suburban apartment at Nice to talk to a TIME correspondent, the 79-year-old master gently contradicted Horse-Painter Munnings' views on modern art in general...
...want to paint a tree," gruff Sir Alfred had snorted at a recent R.A. banquet, "for heaven's sake make it look like a tree!" Matisse's La Forêt (in London's Tate Gallery) did not look a bit like trees to Sir Alfred. Argued Matisse, why should it? Such "material truth," he said, might as well be left to photography. The truth modern painters like himself are after is something else again; it "comes out of the mind of the artist . . . the sentiment of an artist moved by the spectacle of nature...