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| Henri Matisse, 1869-1954 France, "Tea", 1919. "The garden scene depicts Matisse's model Henriette (on the left) relaxing with his daughter, Marguerite, and his dog at the artist's residence outside Paris. Marguerite's mask like face reflects Matisse's long-standing interest in African art....displays his interest in ordinary subject matter that allowed him to focus on the interaction of pattern and color." |
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| Pablo Picasso, Spain 1881-1973,"Portrait of Sebastian Juner Vidal", 1903. This "Blue Period" (1901-04) painting displays an "eerie loneliness on display in his portraits of this time". |
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| Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuania, 1891-1973, "The Guitar Player", 1918 |
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| Sculptures by Alberto Giacometti, Swiss 1901-1966. He was born in the Italian section of Switzerland and his father was a painter. Much of his post WWII work was in response to the horrors of the war. "The Cage" on the left depicts a hollowed-out space that contains an encounter between the male head and the female statuette. "The frequent isolation of his subjects forces the viewer to confront them head-on. For example, "The Leg(1958) features a severed body part, yet, the artist memorializes rather than devalues it." Giacometti is highly revered in his home country. His picture is on the 100 Swiss Franc note. |
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| George Braque, France 1882-1963 "Boats on the Beach, 1906. "In the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris thrived as a center to avant-garde artistic experimentation. From 1905 to 1907, the fauves (literally "wild beasts" in French) - Matisse, Braque, de Vlaminck, among them - rejected the conventional use of color. Instead, they used color to express emotions and to establish a sense of degree through the tension between warm (advancing) and cool (receding) colors." |
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