To the Summit, via Philadelphia
My review of “Matisse in the 1930s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
My review of the 1930s Matisse show at the Philly Museum appears in the December print edition of The New Criterion and online forthwith.
That said, the highlight of the issue is a touching recollection of Clement Greenberg by New York painter Pat Lipsky. In response I recall a line of Darby Bannard’s from Aphorisms for Artists, “Great art is immutable, placid, complete, unchanging, and content to let life rush around it in its perpetual race.”
To the Summit, via Philadelphia
My first thought on seeing the posted image:
Well, of course...when one knows what to do with line, shapes and colors, one can get somewhere.
An unexpected confluence of quality, my lucky day!