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synopsisMatisse Picasso “You have to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at the time. No one has ever looked at Matisse’s painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.” - Picasso Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) are the acknowledged twin giants of modern art, between them having originated many of the most significant innovations of twentieth-century painting and sculpture. This film is an encounter with the two pioneers, two adventurers in painting, who opened new frontiers. In spite of their initial rivalry and their very different temperaments, each came to acknowledge the other as his only true equal, developing a close and complex relationship. Françoise Gilot, Picasso’s companion from 1945-53 and the mother of his children Claude and Paloma, was party to their meetings and their friendship after the Second World War when they became increasingly important to one another both personally and artistically. She has written of them: “They were as complementary as red and green and as opposite as black and white… intense mutual curiosity opened the door to their friendship. Each of them wanted to know the whys and hows of the creative force of the other.” Gilot is one of the contributors to this film, together with Claude Picasso, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Jacqueline Matisse-Monnier, Matisse’s biographer Hilary Spurling and art historian Pierre Daix. Intimately connected with the artists, their eyewitness accounts provide fascinating insights. With archive footage and photos and a wealth of examples of their work, the documentary traces the separate paths Matisse and Picasso followed, looks at their points of contact, and sheds light on how the genius of each artist nourished that of the other. Their unique characters and approaches to creativity are discovered in the details of their lives, their loves and the testimony of their art. dvd information
Cast: Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Claude Picasso, Jacqueline Matisse-Monier, Pierre Daix, Hilary Spurling Customer Reviewspeople who bought this product also bought...
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