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John, Renoir had people strap brushes to his hand when his arthritis made him unable to move his fingers. Hananiah Harari painted when he was virtually blind at the end of his life, and he painted until he died. If Matisse could cut out paper shapes, he could paint.

Appreciating art, in my opinion, begins with not knowing the story. The story is often indistinguishable from the Painted Word (Wolfe).

My impression is that Matisse, in life long combat with the chameleon Picasso, had to come up with something new. His cutouts succeeded to the extent that they can be found on greeting cards at chain drug stores. So can a lot of Picasso's work. And Renoir's, OK. But... don't believe the hype!
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