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Event date
Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 12:00

Mike Belshaw, Gill Perry and Chris Riding, Discussion 2  Matisse Picasso at Tate Modern brings together major masterpieces by the two giants of modern art. Between them Matisse and Picasso originated many of the most significant developments of twentieth-century painting and sculpture. Now you can discover more about their fascinating and intricate relationship in this long-awaited exhibition which opens at Tate Modern and subsequently travels to Paris and New York.

Event date
Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 12:00

Mike Belshaw, Matisse and Picasso: Painting the Studio  Mike Belshaw focuses on Matisse and Picasso's studios, specifically their paintings of studios. He discusses the effects of paintings within paintings in such works and the extent to which the spectator's view can also be the artist's.

Event date
Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 12:00

Sophie Howarth, Sarah Wilson, Niru Ratnam, Andrew Brighton, Discussion 1

Event date
Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 12:00

Niru Ratnam, A Fascination with 'Otherness'  Both Picasso and Matisse drew upon African art early on in their careers, arguably in order to break, or continue in their break from, conventional western visual languages. Niru Ratnam examines the idea of the cultural 'other', how it has been constructed and how it persists in contemporary art.

Event date
Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 12:00

Sarah Wilson, Matisse, Picasso and Exhibition Making  In the light of two very different exhibitions - the Royal Academy's Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900-1968 (26 January -19 April 2002) and Tate Modern's Matisse Picasso (11 May - 18 August 2002), Sarah Wilson, curator of the former, discusses the relationship between exhibition history and the fictional recreation of artists' personae and influence.Further ReadingConstantin Brancusi: The Essence of Things, Tate 2004, especially Alexandra Parigoris, 'The Road to Damascus'Alex Potts, The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative,

Event date
Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 12:00

Andrew Brighton, Matisse, Picasso and Marketing the Modern  The rise of the reputations and prices of Matisse and Picasso were made possible by the development of new ways of marketing art. In his talk, Andrew Brighton asks to what extent the character of their work formed by the political economy of their reputations.

Event date
Saturday, June 22, 2002 - 12:00

Sophie Howarth, Introduction

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