[Sam Cree]

"What Matisse recognized, and taught others to recognize, was the critical importance for a modern painter of finding a mode and means of artistic expression that would enable him to be true to his own sensibility and experience."

I'm wondering if that isn't another way of saying that a modern painter must hit upon a lucky accident of style that can be repeated?

[Sam Cree]

That being said, there is a copy of Elderfield's tome on Matisse in my library, searching through it, I do find a couple things to like. I believe his dancers are universally liked. OTOH, can't figure out how that book got there!