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The Pineapple, the Plate In Matisse’s painting, Mostly oranges,
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| The Pinapple (1948): Oil on canvas, 45 ¼ by 35 in., by Henri Matisse. Matisse combines his simplicity with Picasso’s sense of composition and disjunction. In 1926, Matisse wrote his daughter, “I have not seen Picasso for years. . I don’t care to see him again. . he is a bandit waiting in ambush,” yet the two sought each other out frequently in later years and continued a gentle rivalry where each subsumed the other’s traits into their own works to one-up the other. The Pineapple is perhaps Matisse’s most Picasso-like painting, with its cubist syntax (overlapping of planes and ambiguous corporeality) and unusual contours. | ||||||||
| Ryan G. Van Cleave has work forthcoming in The Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, and Ontario Review. His most recent books include a poetry collection, Say Hello (Pecan Grove Press, 2001), an anthology, Like Thunder: Poets Respond to Violence in America (University of Iowa Press, 2002), and a creative writing textbook, Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes (Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2003). | ||||||||
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