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| | J.W. Morrice: Biography, part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | ntil now, Morrice had painted mostly landscapes; Blanche, exhibited in 1912, is the first of a series of portraits and model studies (note that the screen in the background is the same in the two works). |
 | | rinidad marks the beginning of a new period: having abandoned the wood panel sketches for watercolours, Morrice transposes its technique, lighter and more fluid, into the paintings done after his trip: freer style, very light paint, contours underlined in a slightly darker tone; a reminiscence of Gauguin, perhaps, but the Canadian Morrice prefers colder tones. |
 | | The artistic stimulation he sought from them, rather than a weakness, gave this diffident man the freedom to express the poetry and music that were central to his own creativity. |
| www.cyberus.ca /~ldorais/morr/morbio2e.htm (455 words) |
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