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Greenberg, Clement | March 5, 1949 issue

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The article focuses on a French painter Henri Matisse. Matisse is the brush-wielder and paint-manipulator par excellence, the quiet, deliberate, self-assured master who can no more help painting well than breathing. Matisse may at times execute superficial work, he may do so for years, but he will never lack sensuous certainty. It is held by some people of informed taste in modern art that Matisse's contribution was exhausted by at least 1920. Though the author could not agree that exhaustion was the term to apply to an artist capable of the still life Matisse turned out in the twenties, it did seem until recently that his ambition had slackened in the last three decades.

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MATISSE, Henri, 1869-1954; PAINTERS; ARTISTS; ART, Modern; PAINTING; MOTIVATION (Psychology)
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