#matisseredstudio

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A bit of history, a bit of beauty #moma #matisse #matisseredstudio (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfCuUlhLa7E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Young Sailor II" (1906) is reproduced from 'Matisse: The Red Studio,' the new release from @themuseumofmodernart collecting all of the artworks and objects pictured in Matisse's famous 1911 painting⁠ ⁠ In 'The Red Studio,' "Young Sailor (II)" "is positioned high above the textile, near the upper right corner of the grandfather clock," @ann.temkin and @dorthe.aagesen write. "Carrying the circulatory flow of ‘The Red Studio’ right-ward, the sailor faces the opposite direction of the figure in ‘Nude with White Scarf.’ His pose, with left knee raised and left arm bent, loosely mirrors hers. The image represents a Fauvist painting Matisse made in Collioure, the artist’s second and highly stylized version of a portrait of a local boy in sailor dress. Deftly abbreviating that composition, Matisse has aligned the portrait’s tone more closely with that of its neighbors in ‘The Red Studio’ than with that of the painting it replicates. The monochrome pink background, now brighter, consumes proportionately more of the composition; as the sailor’s body shrinks and shifts to become more rightward facing, it loses the muscular frontality of the original. The young man’s piercing gaze is gone, his face having dissolved into a simple patch of yellow surrounded by a formless zone of unpainted canvas. ‘Young Sailor (II)’ is the only painting in ‘The Red Studio’ whose scale is notably adjusted, appearing to be smaller than it is in actuality. Like that of ‘Nude with White Scarf,’ its intensity has been suppressed in favor of the harmony of the composition to which it now belongs.”⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #matisse #matisseredstudio #theredstudio https://www.instagram.com/p/CdrLs1_J7e4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Henri Matisse’s "Le Luxe II" (1907–08) is reproduced from 'Matisse: The Red Studio,' published to accompany the landmark exhibition on view now at @themuseumofmodernart — which reunites for the first time all of the artworks depicted in the artist’s famous 1911 painting of the interior of his suburban studio just outside Paris. "Le Luxe (II)" appears in the upper right corner of the painting. “'Le Luxe (II)' is the second of a pair of paintings of the same subject, in which the modulated tonalities and visible brushstrokes of its predecessor are translated into flat planes of simple color,” Ann Temkin and Dorthe Aagesen write. “For the second version of 'Le Luxe,' Matisse shifted his medium from oil to distemper, which produces a thin and even matte surface. The rendition of 'Le Luxe (II)' in 'The Red Studio,' on the other hand, is heavily worked, with visible brushstrokes and layering of paint. It also represents the most dramatic color shift from the painting on which it is modeled: Matisse has transformed the pale skin of the three nudes, rendering it in the same red as the studio itself, with the result that the painting appears more 'in' than 'on' the red wall. The change recasts the women as dark-skinned, at a moment in which avant-garde art was raising charged questions around concepts of racial difference and European ideals of beauty. The red-brown earth of 'Le Luxe (II)' has become a rich ocher, and the other colors of the landscape are accordingly intense, the water a deeper green and the sky a darker blue than in the original painting.”⁠ ⁠ By @ann.temkin & @dorthe.aagesen⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #matisse #matisseredstudio #theredstudio #leluxe #matisseleluxeii https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdqz3fnOoUw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Henri Matisse’s large painting 'The Red Studio”'(1911) is so familiar an icon of modern art that you may wonder what remains to be said—or even noticed—about it. Quite a lot, as a jewel box of a show at the Museum of Modern Art proves."⁠ ⁠ Read Peter Schjeldahl on the fascinating @themuseumofmodernart show, 'Matisse: The Red Studio,' on view now in NYC with exhibition catalog available from your favorite independent bookstores everywhere!⁠ ⁠ For example: "Gorgeous? Oh, yeah. Aesthetic bliss saturates—radically, to a degree still apt to startle when you pause to reflect on it—the means, ends, and very soul of a style that was so far ahead of its time that its full influence took decades to kick in."⁠ ⁠ Catalog by @ann.temkin & @dorthe.aagesen⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @avante.art #matisse #matisseredstudio #theredstudio https://www.instagram.com/p/CdqdPKfseg3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Created in 1911, Henri Matisse’s "The Red Studio" would go on to become one of the most influential works in the history of modern art. The painting, which has hung in MoMA’s galleries since 1949, depicts the artist’s studio in the Parisian suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, filled with his own artworks, furniture and decorative objects. Matisse’s radical decision to saturate the work’s surface with red has fascinated generations of scholars and artists, yet much remained to be discovered about the painting’s genesis and history.⁠ ⁠ Here, it is reproduced from 'Matisse: The Red Studio' by @ann.temkin and @dorthe.aagesen — published to accompany the current MoMA exhibition, which reunites the artworks shown in "The Red Studio" for the first time since they left Matisse’s work space.⁠ ⁠ On view @themuseumofmodernart through September 10, en route to @smkmuseum⁠ ⁠ #matissetheredstudio #matisse #matisseredstudio⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdqNpJXOBdK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=