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The idea that Matisse and Picasso, like Gog and Magog, are the founding opposites of modern art has left us a partisan scheme for looking at their work -- and for thinking about it. Picasso drawings, Matisse color; Picasso anxiety, Matisse luxury; Picasso the restless inventor, Matisse the calm unifier; Picasso...
What some people called decadent, others called modern. The Fauve painter Andre Derain complained that "we are the mushrooms on ancient dunghills." But the dunghills produced the art and literature of the modern age, with their deliberate and unprecedented break from history and tradition.
THE FAUVE LANDSCAPE by Judi Freeman (Abbeville; $65). From 1904 to 1908, a group of painters changed the history of modern art. Their startling palettes and images are celebrated by an authority who agrees with one of them, a painter named Henri Matisse: "Fauve painting is not everything, but it...
THE FAUVE LANDSCAPE: MATISSE, DERAIN, BRAQUE, AND THEIR CIRCLE, 1904-1908, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In one of the most productive periods of French art, the Fauves, or "wild beasts," created works that shocked the public and . altered the course of 20th century painting. Through Dec. 30.
But this was exactly what gave pastoral its modern quality. Modernism resisted clear narrative. It wanted to evoke mood and sensation. And in its early years at least, it was drawn to the discreet presence, strung along the shores of the Mediterranean, of an elegiac classical past. The figures in...