Bonus Episode: Take This Job and Fauve It (and Other New Year’s Resolutions)
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Bonus Episode: Take This Job and Fauve It (and Other New Year’s Resolutions)

2022-01-17
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood,” wrote Tom Robbins, the novelist. He could have been referring to Henri Rousseau, the fin de siècle autodidact who begins painting seriously in retirement: storybook-style scenes of exotic animals and jungles that eventually catch the eye of Picasso and Matisse. A story worth remembering as you contemplate a new year, same as the old year—or not. You can see a print of Rousseau’s “War,” a possible inspiration for Picasso’s “Guernica,” in t...
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