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Yesterday I managed, with great difficulty to get away My Daily Art Display blog regarding Carl Philipp Fohr. The difficulty was due to my present location, a hotel in Nice, where I am using their Wifi. I was given the choice to let Internet provider, Orange, regulate the internet site so as to prevent me accessing “inappropriate material” or going for a “free –for-all”. As an upstanding citizen, I chose the censored route but found myself barred from accessing my own site to publish a new blog. I then had to re-think my strategy and agree to be open to all uncensored access in order to access my blog !!!!. With my agreeing to a lack of censorship by Orange France I made it to my site but I am still wondering why my blog is grouped with the &#;XXX sites” – maybe the nude paintings has “done for me”!!!!
So by that introduction, you can gather I am not at home in North Wales enjoying this year’s summer with its torrential rain and gale force winds. My wife Kathy had decided to desert me and go off to Tuscany with her friends who were all celebrating 60th birthdays and I was left all alone. I had thought of remaining at home, à la Cinderella and look after our Bed & Breakfast establishment but as I had a lull in bookings for three days, I decided to head
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Matisse: Minotaure to Verve
When the Power Institute of the University of Sydney was set up in it comprised not just an academic department, but a Research Library and the Power Collection of Contemporary Art. The latter grew to major scale and became Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art in , while the Library evolved into a rich resource for students, practising artists and scholars. In the Library was given a glamorous new home in the R. C. Mills Building, and was renamed for the late art collector and major donor John Schaeffer.
As early as the founding Power Professor, Bernard Smith, hastened to purchase key journals of modern art. These included the famous Paris-based publications MINOTAURE () and VERVE (). Named for the totemic Greek man-bull by its editor André Breton, MINOTAURE was a small-scale Surrealist publication. Printed in black and white with occasional colour plates, MINOTAURE mixed learned essays with short stories and discussions of non-Western art. Following the model of Cahiers d’art, the journal’s art editor E. Tériade sought cover designs and art pages from major Parisian artists like Pablo Picasso (the inaugural cover), Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse.
The brilliant Greek-born immigrant Tériade (surname Eleutheriades) had g