Chapter 7: Matisse

Question 1

Answer 1

• Henri Matisse, Carmelina (1903)
• loved teacher moreau, left school after moreau died
• female nude, very close to the front of the painting space.
• middle ground condensed.
• seated on a table, with another table behind supporting mirror that shows her back and matisse painting her.
• highlight and shadow are not smooth, very abrupt transitions between the two and difference is pushed to the extreme. solidifies the highlights. right hand is in red colored shadow. little bit of condensed space, arbitrary color use, and visible brush strokes.
• background shows Matisse’s sensitivity to pattern as he pushes the rectangular pattern.

Question 2

Answer 2

• Henri Matisse, Luxe calme et volupte (1904-05)
• inspired by seurat and pointillism but he did not use the same color theory with the dots to create gradients. he used arbitrary colored dots to make the image.
• blue mountains resemble cezzane
• arabesque style shape on fireplace, influenced matisse

Question 3

Answer 3

• Henri Matisse, Open Window Collioure (1905)
• painted while on a trip to the mediterranean.
• painting of french doors frames and image outside the window.
• abstracted foliage covers banisters.
• Middle ground is skipped to show the boats in the water.
• simplistic brushstrokes inform the shapes of the objects.
• arbitrary color use.

Question 4

Answer 4

• Henri Matisse, woman with the hat (1905)
• Madame Matisse in arbitrary colors.
• she was a milliner turning around looking over the back of the chair.
• shapes in hat are abstracted and undefined. background is a blend of sloppy brush strokes with random color.

Question 5

Answer 5

• Henri Matisse, The Green Line (1905)
• Mme. Matisse in more arbitrary color.
• shadows are given strange coloring, particularly green line that goes down her face.
• simplified use of color and brushstrokes to make forms.

Question 6

Fauvists/ Fauve Artists

Answer 6

• wild beast artists
• their work was not accepted by the french public more and more artists were turned away from salons
• created their own slaon of rejected art that became very popular

Question 7

Answer 7

• Andre Derain, westminister bridge (1906)
• arbitrary color and reduced space in the uphill look of the bridge, and visible brush strokes

Question 8

Answer 8

• Maurice de Vlaminck, Dancer at the Rat Mort (1906)
• one of the Fauves,
• Lived in Belgium known as follower of matisse
• Very visible brushwork.

Question 9

Answer 9

• Georges Rouault, le chahut (1905)
• deeply christian man.
• used his art as propaganda for his own ideas
• Shows a prostitute to talk about his ideas that prostitutes should not be the ones in prison but the people who paid them should be.

Question 10

Answer 10

• Georges Rouault, the old king (1916-36)
• trained as a stained glass artist originally
• took him twenty years to finally complete it due to scraping paint off and re-appliying it
• contour lines form stained glass like frames for the forms and colors.
• religious subject matter

Question 11

Answer 11

• Raul Defu, flag decked boat (1904)
• Painterly brushstrokes, realistic coloring and scenery.
• flags are the most colorful part of the painting known mostly for watercolors of landscapes
• unlike fauvist he used specific subject matter to add color into his work like the flags in this piece

Question 12

Answer 12

• Georges Braque, Landscape at La Ciotat (1907)
• Clearly influenced by matisse and fauves artists as well as cezanne.
• resembles mount sainte victoire.
• arbitrary color use, visible brushwork, middle ground is condensed, as mountain in background and fauna in foreground are more important.

Question 13

Answer 13

• Henri Matisse, Joy of life (1905-06)
• arbitrary color use, with contour lines and an array of nudes in different positions towards the front of the painting, some resemble the blue nude and other works matisse did
• ring of six figures between the middle and background.
• Painting has a utopian feeling, a kind of abstracted paradise. brush strokes are not as visible, indicates matisse leaving fauvism

Question 14

Answer 14

• Henri Matisse, Danse (1910)
• arbitrary color use, three main colors dominate the painting.
• resembles ring of dancers from joy of life.
• captures the twists of the human form while dancing while keeping the image very flat.
• contour lines russian collectors took notice of matisse’s work and bought his paintings (shuking?) and comisioned a sister piece called music

Question 15

Answer 15

• Henri Matisse, music (1910)
• same vivid but limited color use as Danse and contour lines
• russian industrialist bought dozens of matisse paintings.
• Music was commissioned by the collector who had the second painting of dance, and he wanted another painting to go with it.

Question 16

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Answer 16

• Henri Matisse, the Red Studio (1911)
• visible brushwork is gone, leaving the fauves movement
• red dominates the picture plane, clear arbitrary color.
• Others of his his work are featured in the background
• some objects are filled in and finished while others remain as sratched out yellow outlines on the red,
• he was feeling shitty about how his fame was plateauing instead of growing, this piece shows all the work he had made and hints at work he has yet to make with blank canvas in the background.

Question 17

Answer 17

Lumber Brothers, Young Woman by the seaside (1907)