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question:what-in-the-world-is-going-on-what-is-it-that-matisse-is-seeingWhat in the world is going on? What is it that Matisse is seeing?
Rhetorical question highlighting the mystery of character in portraits; answered by wholeness.
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- Matisse self-portrait wholenessanswered_byFour drawings of Matisse's face with different features share the same underlying wholeness, demonstrating that character is a global structure.
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- Example: life created by small processes—moving a cage, letting birds out, drawing—not by conscious design.
- The Matisse film as an exemplar of living process in art.
- Observation used to illustrate the principle that great painters work from the whole.
- Analysis of Matisse's work as an exemplar of being-making.
- Example of harmony-seeking computation in artistic creation where painter recognizes and develops inherent latent centers.
- Warns against equating life only with high art; ordinariness can have equal life.
- Question to ask in the mind's-eye walkthrough.