History of painting world with "wild", multi-colored, expressive, landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism. Henri Matisse's second version of "The Dance" signifies a key point in his career and in the development of modern painting. It reflects Matisse's incipient fascination with primitive art: the intense warm colors against the cool blue-green background and the rhythmical succession of dancing nudes convey the feelings of emotional liberation and hedonism. 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,
The Nature of Truth imagined. Without the intellectual questioning of truth in "The Nature of Truth", his mature works, I believe, would not have been possible. Troncoso, primarily known for his US-Mexican Border works, is, as "The Nature of Truth" suggests, the brightest and most able of the modern Border writers and thinkers. And somewhere in Troncoso's raising within the Border's transnational diaspora, he found that the nature of truth can only be located in the confines of the self, the family, the community, and our own definition of the truth." ----A reviewer from "Janus Head", a journal of Continental Philosophy, Literature, and Phenomenological