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To: angkor
Here are BOTH paintings, the original Matisse rotated 90°, and overlaid with the other.

Clearly, it's a copy of the layout.


57 posted on 10/08/2009 12:25:09 PM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: TChris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas

Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African American Expressionist painter and art educator.[1]

Born and raised in Columbus, Georgia, Thomas moved to Washington, D.C. with her family in 1907.[2] In 1924, she was the first graduate of Howard University’s art department.[3] In 1934, Thomas became the first African American woman to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. She was also the first African American woman to have a solo exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art.[4]

Thomas’s early art was realistic, but delved into abstraction influenced by the work of her professors, Lois Mailou Jones and James V. Herring. Thomas’s later art, influenced by Expressionism, became her best-known works: large canvases filled with irregular, brightly colored patterns. These works have been compared to Byzantine mosaics and the pointillist paintings of Georges-Pierre Seurat.[4][5]

Two of Thomas’s works now hang in the White House.[1] For example, her “Watusi (Hard Edge)” hangs in the East Wing, in the office of First Lady Michelle Obama.[6]


63 posted on 10/08/2009 12:25:55 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: TChris

Woah!!!! Noice! The artist is a fraud!


86 posted on 10/08/2009 12:33:43 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ('They're drinking the juice.'~ Barack H. Obama)
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To: TChris

Thanks for doing that overlay. Very illustrative of the plagiarism.


121 posted on 10/08/2009 12:52:24 PM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: TChris

Well, it’s not an exact copy. ;)
That depends on the meaning of the word, “exact”.


181 posted on 10/08/2009 5:39:00 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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