Henri Matisse's The Red Studio

Then there are also many psychological lines to be seen in the work. One such line is of the woman and the floor, where she is staring down towards it. Another is from the young child and the store clerk, showing a defiance between the two. Next, light and value are not very contrasting in this painting, with only the basic highlights and the shadows seen. It isn’t completely contrasting or contradicting since the colors blend well together with close to the same value ranges, dark colors seen throughout except for the people’s pale faces. There also seems to be a variety of light sources since the woman’s face along with the shop clerk and the young boy’s is lit up by what seems to be a light bulb since they’re much brighter and highlighted and then the men and women in the back aren’t really as bright, except for the ones who close to the open door, creating a blue tinge from the outside light. The shapes shown through the painting is shown to be either very round or very geometrical. There are organic shapes in things such as the umbrella or even the back of the chair, but mostly it is either straight lines and geometrical shapes. The volume shown in the painting is very much implied, correctly showing the

I think what appeals to me about the artist Henri Matisse was the use of color in his work. To Matisse the color and shapes of objects were feelings rather than the object themselves. At the same time, he invested the canvas with a thrilling color radiance, that, like smell (as Matisse himself observed), subtly but intensely suffuses the senses (Fiero 366).

     Obviously, lots of squares and rectangles are used in this painting. It helps the flow of the painting. When you notice one square or rectangle in the painting, you notice another one close by, which leads your eye around the room back

Jean-Francois Millet’s Potato Planters is a portrayal of two farmers; more likely husband and wife, planting seeding to grow potatoes during the day on their farm. This art has a lot of emphasis, movement, color, line, light, and depth.

The piece I am writing about is the Red Canna, by Georgia O’ Keefe. This oil piece of art is a painting that is nonrepresentational. The forms in this painting are flourishing which can be seen from looking at the flower petals developing across the canvas.The shapes in this piece can be described as sharp, organic, and curvy. The subject of this artwork is growing as means to the flower maturing which show more and bigger details. The location background of this picture is outdoors, maybe in the woods, the jungle, or by a beach. The location of this piece is currently located at the Arizona State University Museum. I found this beautiful painting on Santa Fe Campus on one of the wall columns. The light in this composition is very powerful

Looking at the sculpture carefully I did not observe many shapes, but I did see specific lines which were meant to emphasize smoothness and beauty. For example,

It is similarly large in scale measuring 100 x 84” in dimension. Lucas dwells away from a hyperrealistic portrait. This painting focuses more-so, as inferred, on an abstract sentiment that draws an individual inward due to its massive size to inspect the articulate process that went into creating the piece. When viewed up close, the various elements that formulate the picture are seen as merely colored blobs, streaks, and markings brushed together in their individual square grids; however, from a distance the colors illustrate an illusionistic portrait of the man Lucas. The lower right pictures a segment of Lucas’s eye zoomed in to show the abstract painting on

Clara Davis had created an 11’’ x 17’’, using black and white acrylic paint and mixed together to create different shades of gray. The piece features multiple different curvilinear objects throughout the image. There are numerous different sizes of circles present, most of which were created with chromatic and achromatic value. The image mostly consists of dark values for the biomorphic shapes, while amorphous shapes are of lighter values. The image is consistent in the flatness aspect as all the colors are even throughout. But the edges where the other colors meet are uneven and rough. However, there is reputation present in the artwork as some of the circular shapes are the same size or color.

Henri Matisse is a well-known French painter that was born 1869 and later dies in 1954 at the age of 84 years old. Being well known and famous for several paintings, he was given a charge by a well-known Russian Sergri Shchukin. He was charged to produce three canvases to decorate Sergei mansion staircases in Moscow. On incident, the painting now recognized as Dance I was just a sketch that Matisse had created. The initial sketch and final version of the painting is quite similar in concept. Matisse did use the idea of another famous painting Bonheur de Vivre. The idea he used was the motif. A motif is a distinct decorative pattern or design.

Throwing a wrench into their plans, Henri Matisse displays an intriguing and outspoken representation of the human condition and depth of expression through his composition, painterly line work, and vibrant use of color. Bathers with a Turtle towers over those around it, both in the grandiosity of its canvas— its figures being only slightly smaller than life size—

If we look at the painting we will see that Carter used a variety of different shapes. He uses both organic and geometric shapes. The organic shapes can be seen in the potatoes, bushes and horses. We see the geometric shapes when we analyze the circular buckets that have rectangular handles. The potatoes are unified together by the buckets, in which they are placed.

Because of the assortment of lines and angles, the painting has variety. A similar

Many of the shapes in this painting are very organic, for they are, in fact, organic items. While they may be organic, they also have a somewhat geometric shape to them. There are a lot of perfect, or almost perfect, clusters of circles together. The fact that most of the fruit are circle shapes gives it more of a geometric feel. The parts that are the most organic shaped are the leaves.

When the two men meet, Matisse’s career was beginning to take off. On March 19th, 1906, his second one-man show opened at a Private Gallery where he exhibited fifty-five paintings, along with a number of sculptures, watercolors, drawings, and lithographs. The paintings ranged in date from 1897 to the current year, so the exhibition served as a retrospective that gave a clear idea of his art development. For the 1906 Salon exhibition, Matisse only showed a single painting, Le Bonheur de vivre (Fig. 5), which was the largest- and most daring- canvas he had ever done. Matisse’s creation of The women with the hat (Fig. 3) had unexpectedly shocked people, but with le Bonheur de vivre. Matisse appear to have purposely set out this painting to create a shocking effect. That Matisse wanted his painting to be a kind of manifesto. Leo Stein bought the painting and declared it to be “the most important painting done in our time.” And was hung up high in Gertrude and Leo’s studio. Leo’s high opinion of Le Bonheur de vivre must have vexed Picasso.

"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.