matisse is the best painter ever at putting viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of all modern artists, if you admit feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell of oranges sa essential to a still life . the casbah Gate depicts the well-knowrgateway Babel Aassa which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace with scrubby coats of ivory , aqua , blue and rose delicately fenced by the live liest gray outline in art history, Matiss gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtl presence of the bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the the gate. from peter plagens, Bright Lights Newsweek (26 ?ฟพแ้1990): 50