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By Jack D. Flam
The most important writings of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), aside from the letters, are accrued the following besides transcriptions of significant interviews and announces given at a variety of levels of Matisses profession. Jack Flam offers a biography, a normal creation that addresses the advance of Matisses aesthetic values and theories, and a serious creation for every textual content.
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It is only the rendition of that feeling in concrete form. The work of symbol in a special sense. ,4 This emphasis on intuition also has much in common with the writings of Bergson (18591941) and of Croce (1 866-1 952), whose ideas were current at the time. ) The broad concepts of Bergsonism art is therefore a were especially in the air at the time, much as Einstein's theory of relativity, or, much later, Not only were these ideas current among artists and writers; they also found their way, condensed, into the popular press (in the same way as Matisse's own ideas later, somewhat garbled, were to find their way into the New York Times Magazine in Sartre's Existentialism would be.
In reality, I think that the very theory of complementary colours is not absolute. In studying the paintings of artists whose knowledge of colours depends upon instinct and feeling, and on a constant analogy with their sensations, one could define certain laws of colour and so broaden the limits of colour theory as it now defined. ships, interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
If there is order and clarity in the picture, it means that from the outset this same order and clarity existed in the mind of the painter, or that the painter was conscious of their necessity. Limbs may cross and intertwine, but in the eyes of the spectator they will nevertheless remain attached to and help to articulate the right body: all confusion has disappeared. The my chief function of colour should be to serve expression as well as possible. I put conscious of it, the picture is finished altered on down and perhaps without my having been one tone has particularly seduced or caught me, more often than not once tones without a preconceived plan.