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From: rv
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 14 March 2005
Always find that shows with titles like Picasso painter/ cake decorator mean one thing: there will be few good paintings and lots of bumpf. Same goes for Matisse and the dresses his models wore. It is interesting in a pure and obvious way to see the actual object next to its depiction. Waddisit tell us? said the art historian. Answer: That artist don't paint what they see, that Matisse was a genius at inventing colour schemes. These paintings aren't the breathtaking great ones like the Piano Lesson, which dazzle with prefect geometry, invention, colour, and shadow. The ones in this minor show, are marvellous, the drawings too, with fierce coloured electric beauty and old fashioned lazy women with their tits out, they aren't delightful for political or feminist critics, whose points are fair, but art is not about justice, and great paintings sadistically taunt us all with their amorality and ahistory. This is a crap little show, ok it's diverting enough, and Matisse's paintings upstairs, to emphasise, are better than all the art of the Turks combined downstairs.
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