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Eleanor Nairne on Lee Krasner

The Great Women Artists

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Is There a Difference Between Picasso and Matisse?

She always said that her two gods were Picasso and Matisse but I think if she had to pick she would have said Matisse and Matisse is the person who you really see her going back to recurrently across the course of her career. She has a very combative relationship with authority throughout her life but particularly with tutors and when she gets to the National Academy of Design which is where she is from about 1929. It's important for us to recover something of the socio-historical context to remember why that was so brave at the time.

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