1913 | "The Blue Window" by Henri Matisse

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[@Acquavallo]

That's a beautiful painting, and his use of the claude or whatever it is, that black mirror, is a revelation.

[@jimkodet7908]

I'm currently working my way through the Barr book and will one day make it to MOMA. In the interim, I truly appreciate these presentations for further study.

[@lindas.martin2806]

Very nice presentation, thank you. I will look into the black mirror tool, great to learn something new!

[@spongebobo3041]

Brilliant painting!

[@josephvictory9536]

Beautiful painting, thank you for the video :) very educational and satisfying

[@UMBUBA]

Brilliant Painter!

[@YaBoyDebo]

I wish he was here

[@Divertedflight]

As an arrangement of colours I find the painting very beautiful. As a picture of a view it bugs the hell out of me. Putting the vertical frame in the dead centre of the yellow ochre sculpture makes it look like its a black rod coming out of it. Is it the window, or the statue? Similarly the tree trunk positioned dead centre of the lampshade looks like its part of it also. It would be more natural to judge it a flower arrangement coming out of an oddly shaped vase. Then what the hell is that deeper blue stripe on the left? A curtain? A frame? A wall? In either of these cases how can that vase possibly be there?
On the positive side I wonder sometimes if this painting invented part of the mid-century aesthetic, and I can like it for that. However I find its insistence on somewhat identifiable objects (or at least with detail enough to be pleading for identification) in a space that makes no sense, even in a basic naive like fashion, very discomforting. When Picasso painted people and things that could be interpreted two ways, there was a playfulness to it, and one could adopt one and the other in quick succession. In this Matisse, there's a straining for only one judgement, and its always being painfully contradicted.

[@keithtay]

oh man she's trying way too hard...