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ArtMarch 2010 Matisse & Rodin in Paris by Karen Wilkin On “Matisse and Rodin” at the Musée Rodin, Paris. In 1899, the thirty-year-old novice Henri Matisse showed a group of his drawings to the fifty-nine-year-old master Auguste Rodin. To the younger man’s surprise and dismay, Rodin dismissed his work, saying that he had a “facile hand” and advising him to “fuss over his drawings” over a period of weeks. Matisse, in turn, was shocked by Rodin’s practice of dismantling and modifying existing sculptures, recycling limbs, hands, and torsos as needed to form new configurations. The two never met again in the studio, but Matisse’s hurt endured; thirty-eight years later, writing an essay about drawing, he spoke of the unhelpfulness of Rodin’s response, although he elsewhere attributed the older artist’s lack of enthusiasm—and bad advice—to unavoidable generational differences. Yet, at the end of 1899, soon after this disappointing encounter, Matisse reserved a pai ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 March 2010, on page 38 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Matisse---Rodin-in-Paris-5185
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