Färgstark konstriktning kandinsky och matisse
The remarkable career of Henri Matisse, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, whose stylistic innovations along with those of Pablo Picasso fundamentally altered the course of modern art and affected the art of several generations of younger painters, spanned almost six and a half decades.
Henri Matisse: MoMA
His vast oeuvre encompassed painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic arts as diverse as etchings , linocuts, lithographs , and aquatints , paper cutouts, and book illustration. His varied subjects comprised landscape, still life, portraiture, domestic and studio interiors, and particularly focused on the female figure. Initially trained as a lawyer, Matisse developed an interest in art only at age twenty-one.
In , he moved to Paris to study art and followed the traditional nineteenth-century academic path, first at the Académie Julian winter —92, under the conservative William-Adolphe Bouguereau , and then at the École des Beaux-Arts , under the Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau.
Kandinsky’s and Matisse’s in Different Aspects of Art
Discovering manifold artistic movements that coexisted or succeeded one another on the dynamic Parisian artistic scene, such as Neoclassicism , Realism , Impressionism , and Neo-Impressionism , he began to experiment with a diversity of styles, employing new kinds of brushwork, light, and composition to create his own pictorial language.
In the summer of , while visiting his artist friend Paul Signac at Saint-Tropez, a small fishing village in Provence, Matisse discovered the bright light of southern France, which contributed to a change to a much brighter palette. He also was exposed, through Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross, living in nearby Lavandou, to a pointillist technique of small color dots points in complementary colors, perfected in the s by Georges Seurat — As a result, Matisse produced his Neo-Impressionist masterpiece Luxe, calme et volupté ; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris , so titled after a poem by Charles Baudelaire, and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris spring to great acclaim.
The next summer, in Collioure, a seaport also on the Mediterranean coast, where he vacationed in the company of André Derain — , Matisse created brilliantly colored canvases structured by color applied in a variety of brushwork, ranging from thick impasto to flat areas of pure pigment, sometimes accompanied by a sinuous, arabesque-like line. The years —13 were focused on art and decoration, producing several large canvases such as Reclining Odalisque ; These were followed by four years —17 of experimentation and discourse with the Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris.
In the autumn of , Matisse traveled to Nice in the south of France, and eventually settled there for the rest of his life. These paintings are suffused with southern light, bright colors, and a profusion of decorative patterns.
Henri Matisse (1869–1954)
They emanate a hothouse atmosphere suggestive of a harem. In , Matisse temporarily stopped painting easel pictures. He then traveled to America to sit on the jury of the 29th Carnegie International and, in , spent some time in Tahiti and New York as well as Baltimore, Maryland and Merion, Pennsylvania. Albert Barnes, an important collector of modern art and owner of the largest Matisse holdings in America, commissioned the artist to paint a large mural for the two-story picture gallery of his mansion in Merion.
Matisse chose the subject of the dance, a theme that had preoccupied him since his early Fauve masterpiece Bonheur de vivre. The mural in two versions due to an error in dimensions was installed in May , and remains in place at the Barnes Foundation Merion, Pa. The composition highlighted the simplicity of female figures in exuberant motion against an abstract, almost geometric background.
In preparation for the mural, Matisse began using a new technique—that of building up the composition from cutout shapes of previously colored paper. Another medium that Matisse explored and experimented with throughout his lifetime was drawing. During the mids, he created distinctive series of pen-and-ink drawings on the subject of the artist and his model, while in the early s he conceived his famous sequences of Thèmes et Variations , sensitively drawn spare works in elegant, unshaded line, describing simplified forms of female figures or still lifes.
The latest large drawings of acrobats —52 , executed with a thick brush placed at the end of a long stick, are made up of contour only. They are contemporaneous with a cutout series of Blue Nudes The relationship between figure-ground becomes ambiguous and space complements the intended form. The form appears almost sculptural. Sculpture was another medium pursued by Matisse since his early years, and although independent in expression, it was frequently used to find a solution to pictorial problems or became an inspiration to painting.
Among his best-known works belong the series of four Back reliefs —31 , the series of five Jeannette heads —16 , and the Large Seated Nude — Dabrowski, Magdalena.
Henri Matisse
Madeleine II Henri Matisse. Olive Trees at Collioure Henri Matisse.
Still Life Henri Matisse. View of Collioure Henri Matisse. Portrait of Sergei I. Shchukin Henri Matisse.