Matisse Pi:eceO:ver 100 peoBle viewed the exhibit Sunday.

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UF shows works of 'wild'artist"Matisse's world is set up for pleasure," Carpenter

said. "It is the nature of Matisse that you don't finda single person doing a single functional thing."

Carpenter described the works as a juxtapositionbetween old and new.

"Matisse's art is like a l9th-century classical balletor symphony, it has separate parts that are presentedas a finely executed whole," Carpenter said. "But thevibrancy of his art also can be paralleled with modernjazz or modern dance."

Matisse believed in the harmony of the whole in hisart and thought that any unnecessary detail, in the eyeof the beholder, will usurp the place of another, es-sential one, he said.

"Matisse's work is a set up," he said. "It's not il-lustration.

"Matisse is the supreme master of a dreamlikeworld," he said. "His dominance of a wondeiful, nar-row, delicious, aesthetic environment has a4 irreplace-able position in 2Oth-century art."

The University Gallery is showing the remainder ofrhe Cone Collection through Dec. ll. The gallery isopen from_9 a.-m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and from I p.m.to 5 p.m. Sundays.

A sultry Persian member of a harem, an Italian ladycool under her bonnet, and a number ofreclining nudesconstitute part of the Matisse exhibition that openedlast week at the University Gallery.

The exhibition of 50 lirhographs and six bronzesfrom the-period 1903 tfrrough1925 reflecrs the daringwork of the controversial artisi who was known,among others, as one of "The Wild Men of Paris."

The world Matisse's models inhabit is anything burwild. The black-and-whire lithographs depict a one-on--one relationship between artist and female modelthat is more leisurely domestic than passionate.

Matisse did not believe that expression could onlyreside in "the passion which will light up a face." Heonce said, "It is the whole arrangement of my picture:the piece taken up by the bodies, lhe spaces aroundthem, the proportions, all play their part."

Richard Carpenter, artist and director of theWeatherspoon An Gallery ar the University of NorthCarolina, which loaned the pieces, opened rhe exhibi-tion with an explanation of Matisse's world and thenaFre of his wsk.