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Interior

Artist: Paul Hughes (French, 1891-c. 1950)

Date: ca. 1920's

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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Still Life with Geranium

Artist: Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)

Date: 1906

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Like his artistic hero, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse merged the traditional and the avant-garde. In Still Life with Geranium, he transformed a simple still life into a populated Arcadian landscape painting, rendered in the brilliant color, thick paint, and rapid brushwork characteristic of the group of painters known as the Fauves (French for “wild beasts”). Matisse was recognized by critics as the leader of this group.

This composition is one of contrasts - the pale palette and light brushwork in the upper half of the picture are juxtaposed with the darker colored, heavily painted lower half; the firmly planted pose of the female figure is contraposed with the almost-fleeing figure of the male; and the red vegetables grown near Paris are set near ceramic objects from exotic, faraway places. One of many still-life paintings in which Matisse incorporated his own figurative sculptures, here the artist challenged his viewers’ expectations by rendering his modeled figures with minimal color and simple lines. Probably represented as plaster casts, these figures would later be made in bronze editions by the artist; versions of Woman Leaning on Her Hands (on the right of the geranium) and Thorn Extractor (on the left) are also in the collection of the Art Institute.

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AD 304B Final Presentation

The final presentation was fun:  The ingenuity and creativity of classmates were visible and interesting. Each person's strength was easy to see as well.  I enjoyed the class, and once again, getting acquainted with the young classmates is the major advantage of being in a college class for me...

This course was a tremendous help for me by opening up the perspective of what I could do with clay. Thank you Jeremy!  

Here is the picture of my final presentation:   

From back to front:  "Basket Cases" - a visual pun, "A Clay Rose" - Ceramic-ness for material, "A Blue Ikebana Vase" - Ceramic-ness for media, "Mexican Lime" - a clay and other, "Peach Orchard" - a undercover, and "Ryan's pot" - a found object.