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Article: Show bridges the divide between Matisse and Picasso
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- February 16, 2003
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Show bridges the divide between Matisse and Picasso
By JOHN ZEAMAN, STAFF WRITER
Date: 02-16-2003, Sunday
Section: ENTERTAINMENT
Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday
The last pairing of two great artists at the Museum of Modern Art
was the "Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism" exhibit in 1989. Braque
had described his partnership with Picasso as being like "two mountaineers
roped to each other."
Nobody ever said that about Matisse and Picasso. From the beginning,
they were cast as opposites: Matisse, the rational Frenchman, the
hedonistic colorist who once said art should be like "a comfortable
chair"; and Picasso, the passionate ...