DOI article:
Charles H. [Henry] Caffin, Henri Matisse and Isadora Duncan
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.31039#0034
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idea of abstract beauty sufficiently from the accidents of concrete appearance.
On the other hand, it may be that Matisse has too completely cut him-
self off from our traditions, and has not yet bridged over the wide space with
methods reasonably persuasive. For the present, maybe, he is but blazing
a path, that as yet he does not himself know how to coordinate with the
rhythm and melody of nature.
Meanwhile, I found that after I had been with his pictures some time,
they exerted a spell upon my imagination. So much so, that after I had left
them I could not immediately look at “ordinary” pictures. For the time,
at least, the latter seemed banal in the comparative obviousness of their
suggestion.
Charles H. Caffin.
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On the other hand, it may be that Matisse has too completely cut him-
self off from our traditions, and has not yet bridged over the wide space with
methods reasonably persuasive. For the present, maybe, he is but blazing
a path, that as yet he does not himself know how to coordinate with the
rhythm and melody of nature.
Meanwhile, I found that after I had been with his pictures some time,
they exerted a spell upon my imagination. So much so, that after I had left
them I could not immediately look at “ordinary” pictures. For the time,
at least, the latter seemed banal in the comparative obviousness of their
suggestion.
Charles H. Caffin.
20
