An article about Peter Doig's current exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, entitled "No Foreign Lands," in the Financial Times dated August 10, 2013, by Jackie Wullschlager contains the following passage:
"In 2000 Doig had been bowled over by another radical Matisse, 'Bathers and a Turtle', particularly its balance between large abstract planes and trio of figures. Reprising his Canadian canoe paintings in Trinidad [source of paintings in the show], he further simplified their composition into a tripartite structure like Matisse's, with horizontal bands of sea, canoe and sky. He called the tropical series "100 Years Ago" because, as he says, in Edinburgh's catalogue: 'That is our language. So much has happened with painting in the past 100 years that one can profit from and take nourishment from as a painter. Acknowledging that is extremely important.'
"But to do so, Doig knows, is also a risk. Modernism was about fragmentation, memory, a sense of interiority that still resonates today. It was not about the image overload and virtual relation to reality that determine visual experience - and therefore artistic creation - now." [Italics added.]
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