picasso, gauguin, cezanne, delacroix, kandinsky, marcel duchamp, and on and on and on. it's a massive exhibit. 1200 painters and sculptors. impressionists, post impressionists, and most controversial of all, the cubists. so, as this exhibit was being set up in capturing the nation's attention, a lot of the press seemed to be focused on the french painter henri matisse. a post-impressionists. 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 then, 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 just a little snippet from this article, this interview with matisse. what is your theory on art, the reporter asked? "take that table for ex

finally, marcel duchamp. nude descending. you get the sense of the cubist john ray here, and what is it we are seeing here? a further disorienting of lines and overall structure compared to whistler's mother. the cubists, on purpose fractured the traditional form, the subject, it is all broken up and reassembled. this fit the artist's temper at the time and the new philosophical motivations of their time, and that is that things may not eat what they seem. especially with einstein and some of freud's influence, this is a thought that is starting to take root. what we thought was time and space turns out to be not time and space. things like that. you can see this working its way into art. what we thought was true or real or solid or absolute, that these things can be broken down and then they can be reassembled that truth or art or life itself can be broken down, but then reassembled in a way that had greater meaning or value than existed previously. from this point then, we should be able to make the link from this artistic