-- french painter henri matisse. i will give you a couple examples of matisse's work. ok. gives you a sense of how he paints. another quick example. this is one that was on display at the armory show. he is a post impressionist. he is messing with lines here a little bit. the new york times, for example, so fascinated with matisse, they sent a reporter to france to interview him and from this interview, what you have, we get a good sense both of what these modern artists were attempting to do, and also why their critics disliked them so much. so, you have before you then, little snippets from this article, this interview with matisse. what is your three on art, the reporter asked matisse. take that table for example. i do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. later on, the reporter -- "tell me i said, pointing to an extraordinarily lumpy clay study of a nude woman with limbs of fearful liength, why?" i like that. "he picked up a small japanese statue with head all out of proportion to th

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keep in mind this interview with henri matisse. so, kenyon cox on the cubists. "they maintain they have invented a symbolism that expresses their individuality, or as they say, their soul. -- their souls. if they really expressed their soul in the things they show us, god help their souls." right? because in their souls, potatoes -- tomatoes are blue. then he makes this important link between modernism and painting and literature and cox here raises a very important question. he says, if the literary man were to say, wiggility wiggility, wiggilty and tell you that combination of letters gives you the impression of dawn, how will you say that it doesn't? that's a pretty good question there, isn't it? cubism and modernism represent for him a tendency to abandon all respect for tradition and to insist that art shall be nothing but an expression of the individual. so, again cox has raised a very important point regarding modernism and cubism. if all that matters to the painter, to the artist is what he or she feels inside, what happens if that view, that conviction