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KERA: Does Picasso use line and color differently from the ways in which Matisse uses them? Rick Brettell: Picasso has this unbelievable natural ability with line and with draftsmanship, He is able to seduce you with that, as opposed to Matisse, who uses imagery to seduce you. And Matisse makes beautiful images odd and scrubbed and ugly, and therefore there’s this wonderful tension. Whereas Picasso will take something like a sexual adventure, or a skull in front of a mirror, or something that isn’t in itself an attractive subject, and because of his sheer abilities with line, and the ease with which he makes images, he seduces you. And Picasso was never that interested in color. He’s not a great colorist. I mean, there are beautiful colors in paintings by Picasso, but they don’t make a contribution to color painting as such in the way that Matisse did. Picasso uses color for accent and for flavor. It’s important to the work of art, but it’s not essential to the work of art in Picasso. And it’s essential to the work of art in Matisse.
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