Portrait of Olga Merson- Matisse “What gives the portrait power is this tension between mimesis (paint, the brush strokes). One says: Out there; the other says: Here. This tension suggests that the material has a life as present as the subject’s—it can cause her to move. ” -Dean Young, “The Art of Recklessness”

Portrait of Olga Merson- Matisse

“What gives the portrait power is this tension between mimesis (paint, the brush strokes). One says: Out there; the other says: Here. This tension suggests that the material has a life as present as the subject’s—it can cause her to move. ” -Dean Young, “The Art of Recklessness”