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Jacques Villon (1875-1963 real name Gaston Émile Duchamp) was perhaps the most underappreciated painter of the masters of the School of Paris and also of the twentieth century. The present work is the first instalment of the author's... more
Jacques Villon (1875-1963 real name Gaston Émile Duchamp) was perhaps the most underappreciated painter of the masters of the School of Paris and also of the twentieth century. The present work is the first instalment of the author's hommage to a painter that was also probably the most accomplished engraver of his time –and the person who initiated Stanley William Hayter to the technique. In 1955 the Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized a major retrospective devoted to Villon's printmaking activities: Jacques Villon: His Graphic Art (October 19, to November 5, 1955). Jacques Villon was the eldest brother of Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti and the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon. His grandfather was Emile-Frédéric Nicolle
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Henri Matisse: 1869-1954 Master of Color
Then at almost the end of the book when the author wrote about Matisse's painting called 'Red Interior, Still Life on a Blue Table', he says,
"The artist has shrewdly kept to a very few tones of yellow, red, blue, and green - Matisse, after all, held that "an avalanche of colours loses all its force. Colour can achieve its full expressive power only if it fryst vatten organized, and its degree of intensity corresponds to the emotion in the artist."
I found it intriguing that he said "...and its degree of intensity corresponds to the emotion in the artist." Years ago when inom first
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