ENGLISH WORLD MATISSE "THE RED STUDIO" FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON
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| MATISSE "L' ATELIER ROUGE" FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON Crédits photo : Gérard Pocquet https://ainsiparlaitlart.blogspot.com |
The Red Studio
Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1911Oil on canvas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund, 1949
The Red Studio was painted in several stages over the course of the fall and winter of 1911. The picture depicts a corner of the artist's studio in Issy-les-Moulineaux, showing the works, furniture, and objects found in the room at the time.
The painting's most striking feature is the red that covers most of the canvas, completely subsuming the walls, floor, and furniture. The overpainting was a late-stage decision by Matisse.
The artist had first depicted the studio in deep perspective, using a range of other colors. Thus, beneath the red is another, earlier stage of the painting in which the walls are blue, the floor pink, and the furniture ochre. Matisse himself was uncertain of what he had done. Shortly after he had added the red, he admitted to Vilma Balogh, a Hungarian writer visiting his studio, that he was venturing along untrodden paths: "I like it, but I don't quite understand it;
I don't know why I painted it precisely the way I did."
With the red coverage, the picture was transformed into a completely different work. The studio furniture was now drawn by negative contour lines; Matisse left the outlines in reserve, creating linear gaps that expose the underlying painting. His own works, almost all of which escaped the coat of red, float in the red space, at once together and separate.
The red color negates the sense of three-dimensionality, making the image flat and abstract. The Red Studio is a significant manifesto that makes color an artistic element in its own right, liberated from any narrative or representational function.
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| https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/fr/collection/artistes FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON Crédits photo : Gérard Pocquet https://ainsiparlaitlart.blogspot.com |
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