#matisee

[arinewman7]

Portrait de Marguerite by Henri Matisse brush and India ink on paper 1906-1907

[ilikesweating]

Polynesia, the Sea | Henri Matisse

[jackylandia]

[davidstrachan611]

Learning a language

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I was standing at the long bar in the Museo de Jamon in Madrid,  half-lifting an arm, half-opening my mouth in a vain attempt to catch the bartender’s eye when the Spaniard beside me, either out of pity or irritation, told me that to activate a waiter in Spain you simply called out Oiga, and forthwith demonstrated how it was done. Oiga. The bartender responded immediately. No offence taken; none…

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[tumblngphilopoet]

It's the birthday of Juan Gris, born José Victoriano González in Madrid (1887). Gris studied engineering in Madrid but soon abandoned it for art. At 19, he moved to Paris and rented the apartment right next to Pablo Picasso's. He befriended fellow artists Henri Matisse and Georges Braque, and made a living by selling illustrations to various Parisian journals, before shifting his focus to painting in 1910. His technique eventually helped create Cubism, the radical artistic style that was coming into prevalence at the time.

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/03/23

[bonenfancy]

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

Henri Matisse

[derpthroughtheages]

Time Period: Fauvism

Title: Blue Nude

Artist: Henri Matisse

Original 

[artspolitics]

New Museum's 1993, AMNH's Our Global Kitchen, MET's Matisse Exhibition