We Visited and swam at Nice, Verdon Gorge ,
Moustiers St Marie ; Chapel du Rosaire at Vence by Henri
Matisse at his age of 77, the
greatest project of his life. He had not practiced the religion for many
years, but designed the chapel as an artistic challenge.
In this trip to France, I
have eventually got a touch to the French Arts from Matisse and Picasso.
Matisse tried to let his works
"not to take precedence over feelings". He once
said " you must subject
yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the
ground before you start walking on a tightrope."
Bill
Matisse said "drawing
not as an exercise of particular dexterity… which should speak without
clumsiness, directly to the mind of the spectator." Pablo Picasso , a Spanish painter,
expressed anger and condemnation of Francisco Franco and
fascists. He said "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break
them like an artist."
Henri Matisse ( 1869-1954 ) Initially trained as a
lawyer, Matisse developed an interest in art only at age twenty-one. Matisse's
underlying aim always remained the same: to discover "the essential
character of things" and to produce an art "of balance, purity, and
serenity," as he himself put it in his "Notes of a Painter" in
1908.
Matisse explored and experimented throughout his lifetime
with his drawings. Drawing in elegant, unshaded line,
describing simplified forms of female figures or still lifes, often helped
Matisse to work out compositional and stylistic problems or new ideas. . In the late 1940s and early '50s, his drawings
become bolder, the contour line thicker, the forms even more simplified and
devoid of detail; as in Blue Nudes (2002.456.58). Matisse
commented to draw nature ,not personal feelings
Henri Matisse is
widely regarded as the greatest colorist of the twentieth century and as a
rival to Pablo
Picasso in the importance of his innovations. He emerged as
a Post-Impressionist,
the leader of the French movement Fauvism. he sought to create
an art that would be "a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather
like a good armchair."
Matisse once
wanted his art to be one "of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of
troubling or depressing subject matter," who looked to art to
provide shelter from the disorientation of the modern world. "I have always
considered drawing not as an exercise of particular dexterity… but as a means
deliberately simplified so as to give simplicity and spontaneity to the
expression, which should speak without clumsiness, directly to the mind of the
spectator."
"Drawing
is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."
"If I trust my drawing hand it is
because in training it to serve me, I forced myself never to let it take
precedence over my feelings." Still life and the nude remained favorite
subjects throughout his career; North Africa was also an important inspiration,
Quotes by Henri Matisse
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete.
It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is
within the lover.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the
advantage of permanence.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the
influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you
start walking on a tightrope.
Chapel du Rosaire at Vence https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Henri+Matisse&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-au&client=safari#hl=en-au&q=Chapel+du+Rosaire+at+Vence++by+artist+painter+&imgrc=DHzISedlVnl0KM%3A
Matisse built the church , built in 1947 when he was
77. Cannot see through yellow (God), can see the blue and green.
Movie - model for Matisse 2005
Between Picasso and Matisse, Matisse apparently said that he was very much a man of northern France, Picasso was very much a man of southern Spain. .And both knew each other very well. Matisse and Picasso may have been very important to each other, they looked at each other's works very carefully .
Pablo Picasso ( 1881- 1973
) was a Spanish painter, As a Spanish citizen living in France,
Picasso was under no compulsion to fight against the invading Germans in either
World War. In the Spanish Civil War, service for Spaniards living abroad was
optional and would have involved a voluntary return to their country to join
either side. While Picasso expressed anger and condemnation of Francisco Franco and
fascists through his art, he did not take up arms against them.
In 1944 Picasso joined the French Communist Party,
But party criticism of a portrait of Stalin as
insufficiently realistic cooled Picasso's interest in Soviet politics, In a
1945 interview with Jerome Seckler, Picasso stated: "But if I were a
shoemaker, ...... I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in a special way to
show my my politics."[56]
Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long
lifetime. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at
50,000.
Picasso painted mostly from imagination or memory. According
to William Rubin,
Picasso "could only make great art from subjects that truly involved him
... Unlike Matisse, Picasso had eschewed models virtually all his mature life,
preferring to paint individuals whose lives had both impinged on, and had real
significance for, his own."[74]
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an
artist.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I
may learn how to do it.
in 1946 he settled in Antibes. The Picasso museum in Antibes
was castle of 1385 to 1607. Officially dedicated to Picasso in1947, who painted
2 months there.
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