Article: Matisse and Picasso: a gentle rivalry.(Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas)(Cover Story)

As final preparations were underway for "Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry," which opens this month at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, art historian LINDA NOCHLIN met with the exhibition's curator, YVE-ALAIN BOIS, and talked with him about his revisionist approach to the relationship between these two central modernist figures. By turns parodic, agonistic, even elegiac, the conversation Bois details unfolds as a series of nuanced moves and countermoves within the artworks themselves. Often seen as antipodal forces, the two artists emerge as necessary partners and foils, twin protagonists engaged in a mutually enabling dialogue that helped shape the ...

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