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Title: The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume 1: The Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling ISBN: 0-520-22203-2 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Meet Matisse and Enter His Landscape for Reading Pleasure
Comment: Henri Matisse (1869-1954) came from the somber northern region of France. The landscape of his youth was sketched in the somber colors of a provinical childhood. His family were seed merchants, sober and no nonsense in their approach to the realities of life. As Matisse grew his art expanded as he journeyed to Paris and to the South of France where he discovered the glories of coloration in his art. Matisse was the greatest of the Fauvist painters; the chief rival of Picasso and the grand old man of French painting.
In this first volume of her life of Matisse, Hilary Spurling the British born biographer draws France in the dawn of the 20th
century as we see Matisse struggle from poverty to stability. He was supported by a loving wife, good friends and a genius which
burst forth in all its glory as the great master continue to grow in his art.
The book is well illustrated, detailed in its description of Matisse's families, friends and opponents and well worth the reader's time.
With the current exhibition of Matisse-Picasso at the Metropolitan Museum of Mordern Art it is a pleasure to turn to Spurling's fine volume on Matisse to gain further insights into this giant of modern art. I recommend this book to everyone from art expert to the educated general reader seeking further insights into the evolution of a painter of genius.
Rating: 5
Summary: Matisse's Colors
Comment: This is a genuinely inspiring biography, clearly written and deeply felt, powerfully communicating the revolutionary ideas of what painting could and should be that drove, and were driven by, Henri Matisse. Spurling vividly describes Matisse's struggles to balance his need to paint with financial reality and his society's disdain, often using the artist's own letters and recollections to depict his growing obsession with color and impatience with representation.
Although I eagerly await the second volume, the true measure of Spurling's success is my anticipation in revisiting Matisse's paintings -- my enjoyment of his work has been increased immeasurably by reading this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful artist biography
Comment: I read this book last year and have been anxiously awaiting the next volume. A marvelous examination of Matisse's start, the development of his passion for art and the complex personal life that made the journey extraordinary and, at the same time, ordinary. The images of his parents, their scandalous employers, his wife, his children, and his remarkable artistic peers remain very vivid for me, as each are really intriguing in and of themselves. Spurling is enormously engaging as a writer, and this book takes you to France at the turn of the 20th century and present time and place in a way that stays with the reader. It's a fantastic work.
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Title: Matisse on Art (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) by Henri Matisse, Jack Flam, Jack D. Flam ISBN: 0520200322 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Matisse and Picasso: The Story of their Rivalry and Friendship by Jack D. Flam, Jack Flam ISBN: 0813365813 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas ISBN: 0679756868 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Matisse by Pierre Schneider ISBN: 0847805468 Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1984 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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Title: Goya by Robert Hughes ISBN: 0394580281 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 11 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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