MoMA Conservators discover Matisse's process for "The Red Studio" | CONSERVATION STORIES
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 พ.ค. 2022
- "The Red Studio" wasn’t always red. That was the hypothesis that kicked off a two-year analysis of one of Henri Matisse’s most radical paintings.
The current exhibition Matisse: The Red Studio offered a rare opportunity to take the iconic MoMA work off view and into the conservation lab for an extensive examination. Senior Paintings Conservator Anny Aviram has worked at MoMA for decades, but had never seen the painting without its frame. That simple change was the first clue that led to a series of new discoveries about Matisse’s process.
Using various imaging techniques and a microscopic sample, Anny, along with Paintings Conservator Michael Duffy, David Booth Fellow in Paintings Conservation Caroline Hoover, and Assistant Conservation Scientist Abed Haddad peeled back the painting’s layers to reveal what’s underneath the Venetian red. Then, following Matisse’s brushstrokes-and the bristles he left behind-they saw the way, as Anny says, “he went for the red in almost one shot.”
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"Matisse: The Red Studio" is organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark. The exhibition is organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, and Dorthe Aagesen, Chief Curator and Senior Researcher, SMK - National Gallery of Denmark; with the assistance of Charlotte Barat, Madeleine Haddon, and Dana Liljegren; and with the collaboration of Georges Matisse and Anne Théry, Archives Henri Matisse, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.
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Did anything need conserving? Seems a bit selfish to keep it away from public view for two years.
I find the enthusiasm of the presenters rather Q2, but some of the statements make me wonder if they know anything at all about the painting process. Hair does get loose even at the smoothest strokes of a brush, no vigor needed. Yes, you have to let paint dry before painting over it, there is no surprise he did this. And yes, the process of painting includes layering and sometimes making bold decisions, accepting them or taking them back. Everything else would bei coloring by numbers. Oh and wow, you see this on the edges of all paintings. What´s the deal? Guys, it´s a painting! An important one and all that, but in the end it´s a painting, a painting, a painting. Your "discoveries" are not really worth making such a drama about it.
Seems like the Museum should have a room/display featuring this painting and breaking down and explaining to the public everything they've learned with this machinery. It would be interesting.
It's called painting. Things aren't working out you make changes, sometimes radical ones. Conservators get astonished by what many working artists do all the time. A lot of us don't know where a picture's going to go.
Can I ask a question? What's the point of discovering all of this?
This is NOT a dig at the conservators, but as an oil painter... I could've guessed a lot of this just from looking at it! I mean, of course the red was applied when the other layers were dry. You couldn't get an even, flat coat like that if the underlayers were still wet. Emotionally I relate too -- often you keep a piece around that you're just not satisfied with, and you paint over a lot of it to see if you find something better. I love Matisse.
Imagine getting paid to do this! To get to spend so much time absorbing a great work of art. Lucky ducks!
Painter layers colors one atop the other. Wow, revelatory.
"You enter the most private place in an artist's life" yeah I'm sure Matisse would be thrilled that 4 random strangers are scientifically picking apart his paintings... let's go dig up his old snotrags too
I think they should definitely exhibit this painting rather than figuring out how he painted
Fascinating!
Love the passion these guys have.
WOW! What I would have given to be a part of this team! There was a Matisse exhibit in my city years ago. It was my first chance to see his paintings close up. When i saw some of those intricate passages it made me cry! Looking at those little clues he left can make the viewer feel a sense of intimacy with him. It's kind of like a subtle vibration left behind, if that makes sense...
I love paintings, and photographs, of artist's studios. They have a 'meta' quality to them.
Fabulous! This video made me feel the excitement of the conservators.
Completely fascinating! Thank you!
Really fascinating. Thank you for this video.
Amo esta pintura, tan armoniosa, a pesar del rojo me calma verla
These videos are so cool! I love these and would love to see more!
Fabulous, fantastic, fascinating video! Thanks so much!