20th-century Western painting modern painting. It reflected Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm color of the figures against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of the dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism. Initially influenced by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, and other late-19th-century innovators, Pablo Picasso made his first cubist paintings based on Cézanne's idea that all depiction of nature can be reduced to three solids: cube, sphere and cone. With the painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907; see gallery) Picasso created a new and radical picture depicting a raw and primitive brothel scene with five prostitutes, violently
The Nature of Truth way Richard Wright's "Native Son" is a thriller. And it's an erudite reader's novel in the way of Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" is. Troncoso's work places the reader on a knife's edge of suspense, while challenging the reader to examine and question "The [very] Nature of Truth", whether that truth be racially defined, intellectually constructed, or a scepter rising from ancient ideals of right and wrong... Troncoso's "The Nature of Truth" informs his mature works—"From This Wicked Patch of Dust" and ""—as they examine the ideas of borders, their permeability, and their dualistic nature of the real and the