Word: obsessionals
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"I don't have an obsession with [aging], it's an acknowledgment and a dealing with it. You know, Yeats had to deal with it, Eliot had to deal with it, we all have to deal with it. Everybody except idiots has to deal with it.
Two such vulnerable groups are children and people who are predisposed to developing eating disorders. The incidence of anorexia nervosa has risen steeply in the last 15 years, an increase partly attributable to our increasing cultural emphasis upon slimness. Children are swayed by the obsession with weight: a survey showed...
Now the National Gallery of Art in Washington has filled it, persuasively, radiantly and definitively, with a show of 171 paintings done by Matisse in his early Nice years, assembled by Art Historians Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade. It should dispel any lingering suspicion that between 1916 and 1930, even...
Matisse, though, made no such assumptions. He was not an abstract artist but a magisterial painter of bodies and spaces. The specific did not just "interest" him; it was close to an obsession, for all the apparent generalizations of his style. Even in paintings of calm and predictable subjects, like...
Bonnard's light and Matisse's luxe, run through Greenberg's reduction mill and then filtered by Louis' own obsession with the ethereal, came out in a curiously attenuated form. But it supported -- and after Louis' death was in turn supported by -- the argument that after Pollock painting had only...