Princess Tarakanova by Konstantin Flavitsky.Islamic Calligraphy by Ahmed Karahisari.Grande Odalisque by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.Haystacks: Autumn by Jean-Francois Millet.Allegory of Sight by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens.The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens.Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.La Chocolatière by Jean-Etienne Liotard.Picture with Circle by Wassily Kandinsky.The Artist’s Father, Reading “L’Événement” by Paul Cezanne.Portrait of Chess Players by Marcel Duchamp.Simultaneous Contrasts by Sonia Delaunay.Dinamismo di un’Automobile by Luigi Russolo.Figures in the Night Guided by the Phosphorescent Tracks of Snails by Joan Miro.Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird by Frida Kahlo.Nafea Fas Ipoipo (When Will You Marry) by Paul Gauguin.Dynamism of a Soccer Player by Umberto Boccioni.Boy with Knapsack – Color Masses in the Fourth Dimension by Kazimir Malevich.Poems of Peace and War by Guillaume Apollinaire.Bathing of the Red Horse by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.Garçon a la Pipe (Boy with Pipe) by Pablo Picasso.Mystery and Melancholy of a Street by Giorgio de Chirico.Portrait of Gertrud Müller by Ferdinand Hodler.Restaurant de la Machine at Bougival by Maurice de Vlaminck.Deepened Impulse (Vertiefte Regung) by Wassily Kandinsky.A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.The Boulevard Montmartre at Night by Camille Pissarro.Still Life with Bottle and Apple Basket by Paul Cezanne.The House of Parliament, Stormy Sky by Claude Monet.Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.Portrait of Pere Tanguy by Vincent van Gogh.The Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet.Paris Street Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte.Portrait of Emile Zola by Edouard Manet.Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt.Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) by John Singer Sargent.The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train by Claude Monet.Sitting Female Nude with Yellow Blanket by Egon Schiele.Street Scene in Berlin (Berliner Strassenszene) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.Cut Ground Yellow & Blue by Sean Scully.Atmosphere Chromoplastique by Luis Tomasello.Interior with a Book by Richard Diebenkorn.Vir Heroicus Sublimis by Barnett Newman.Matisse, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Location : The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A. Pochoir, printed in color, each double page: 16 5/8 x 25 5/8 in. Images from his book entered popular culture seamlessly, and have been reproduced as posters and prints. Jazz was a compilation of hundreds of paper cutouts (like Icarus). #The flight of icarus freeThe bursts of the yellow sunlight against the rich blue of the sky are almost hypnotic. His Icarus with a bright red spot in place of a heart is mysterious and calm, free of anxiety or fear. This beautiful, bold color could be interpreted as Matisse’s way of depicting Icarus’ passion for flying! Towards the later part of his life, Matisse, almost blind and no longer able to paint using traditional means, resorted to “painting with scissors”. It’s a deeply tragic moment of inevitable death, of destruction, of collapse of hopes and ambitions, yet Matisse creates an almost meditational composition. Here Matisse shows Icarus flailing in the deep blue sky, his body in free fall. The heat melted the wax and Icarus plunged to his death. His father warned him again and again not to get too close to the sun, but Icarus discarded all warnings and one day headed straight up towards the bright light of the sun. Happily he ascended, gliding through skies, going higher and higher. Determined to raise to the skies and fulfill his dream he constructed beautiful wings made from wax. The story goes that a young man named Icarus was obsessed with the idea of flying. Icarus was a protagonist of a well-known Greek myth that was quite popular among European painters as a subject. #The flight of icarus fullIcarus, or The Flight of Icarus (click on the detail to see the full image) is perhaps his best known work from the book of cutouts titled Jazz. Trust Henri Matisse to have a unique approach to well-known narratives of the Greek myths.īest known as the driving force of Fauvism towards the end of his career Henri Matisse produced an equal number of cut-out “paintings” that are known for their rigid lines, richly saturated colors and dynamic compositions.
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