Effects of light and shadow, which would have added depth to the image, have been translated into planes of colour instead. All Rights Reserved. Toggle navigation Henri Matisse.
Photo of Green Stripe by Henri Matisse Much of its strength resides in its simple geometric structure and in the way in which the colours are combined. Joy of Life. Lydia, who came from Siberia, had long golden hair, blue eyes, white skin and finely cut features: the looks of an ice princess, as Matisse said himself.
Born in , the only child of a doctor whom she adored , Lydia had been orphaned and forced to flee Russia in the turmoil after the revolution, ending up a penniless exile in Nice.
She was surviving precariously on nothing but her pride, her resourcefulness and her unbudgeable will when, in , she found temporary work, first as a studio assistant, then as a domestic, with Matisse and his wife.
It was not for another three years that the painter asked her to sit for him. Lydia was 25, Matisse was She thought of him as a kindly and polite old gentleman because unlike previous artists, who had taught her to detest modeling he never pawed at her or tried to take off her clothes.
The first paintings Matisse made of Lydia combined the phenomenal virtuosity that had cost him so many years to perfect with his original instinctive ability to compose spontaneously in color. That autumn Lydia posed for a drawing of a nymph being wooed by a satyr, a theme Matisse had first painted some 30 years earlier, when, as she said herself, his handling was far more brutal than in the variation he did of her.
He was charming, and so touching. He knew how to tame me. The collaboration they established together gave Lydia a new sense of power and purpose.
Lydia, returning briefly to help out in the studio in Paris, found herself trapped with Matisse in a stream of people fleeing invasion after the declaration of war with Germany. She remained at his side for the rest of his life. In his closing decade in the face of exhaustion and failing health, Lydia made it possible for him to produce his final masterpieces—the chapel at Vence and the colored paper cutouts now generally agreed to be among the greatest inventions of the 20th century.
Matisse died on November 3, He was The day before, Lydia had come to his bedside with her newly washed hair wound in a towel turban, accentuating the classical severity and purity of the profile Matisse had so often drawn and painted. Post a Comment. Matisse does not seek to paint what he sees as accurately as possible and is not concerned with displaying specific aspects of his model or with creating a psychological portrait.
Nor is the painting about the relationship between him and his wife; rather, it seeks convey an inner experience. The green line dividing the face into two halves, a cold and a warm one, contributes to a plane-like effect that makes the portrait mask -like and abstract.
Stein and the Danish collectors In addition to being an important masterpiece of portraiture, the painting also has an interesting story. It first came into Danish ownership right after World War I. At first, no one could understand what is shown here. It got to a In , he decided to decorate his mansion in Moscow in a special way and invited the artist The canvases depicted a female figure, which was skillfully combined with abstract It was impossible not to notice the bright large picture of the leader of the Fauves, Henri Matisse, This policy was very different from the usual techniques of past
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