Earlier he had referred to the eternal battle between drawing and colour This battle is of special importance in France, where it was long the basis of all art debate; I referred to it earlier in connection with Cézanne Drawing was associated with the mind and with classicism, while colour was associated with sensory appeal and with a willingness to dilute the virtues of classicism. Poussin and Rubens were enrolled as the unwitting champions of each school of thought. The moral overtones heard in this opposition still contributed to the denunciation of Fauvism in 19o5 just as they had to the prejudice against Impressionism in the Matisse always an outstanding colorist as well as a draughtsman, brought the two talents into absolute concordance in his cut-outs. His last works declare that opposition not so much resolved as invalid, just as they the then fervid opposition of abstract art to figurative: "for me nature is always present’. His essential means, throughout, was this seeing without prejudice.
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