Matisse's Meditation on Art & Space

"All the elements... sink their individual identities in what became a prolonged meditation on art and life, space, time, perception and the nature of reality itself... a crossroad for Western painting, where the classic outward-looking, predominantly representational art of the past met the provisional, internalised and self-referential ethos of the future..."

-- Hilary Spurling on Matisse's Red Studio, Matisse the Master, page 81.