Toward Abstraction:
The Modernist Revolution 1905 –
1914
‘The Avant Garde’
Matisse
Liberating color
Fauvism
Picasso
Liberating form in space
Cubism
Fauvism
‘C'est Donatello dans la cage aux fauves!’
-- Louis Vauxcelles, Salon d'Automne, 1905.
expressive use of color
bold fragmented application of color
color as emotion
pure, brilliant color, applied straight from the paint tubes
in an aggressive, direct manner to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas.
André Dérain
Mountains at Collioure, 1905, o/c, 32 x 39”
long strokes of pure color
“sticks of dynamite”
“deliberate disharmonies”
Derain, The Dance, 1905
Derain, Charing Cross, 1906
Derain, London Bridge, 1906
Maurice de Vlaminck, Restaurant at Bougival, 1906
Henri Matisse 1869-1951
“I hear colors sing”
“When I put a green, it is not grass.
When I put a blue, it is not the sky.”
"Fauve painting is not everything,
but it is the foundation of everything."
Matisse, Notre Dame in late Afternoon,
1902
Matisse, Luxe, calm et volupte, 1904-5
Matisse, Open Window, 1905
Henri Matisse
Woman with a Hat,
autumn 1905
Oil on canvas;
31 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.
Matisse
Portrait of Madame Matisse/The Green Stripe
1905
Oil and tempera on canvas 15 x 12”
Matisse
Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, 1905
Poussin, Bacchanalia, 1630
Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, 1905
Ingres, Turkish Bath, 1862
Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, 1905
Ingres, Golden Age, 1862
Matisse
Blue Nude/Souvenir of Biskra
1907
36 1/4 x 55 1/8 in. (92.1 x 140.1 cm)
Scenes and Types: Reclining Odalisque 1910-1930
Matisse, Blue Nude/Souvenir of
Biskra, 1907
Vlaminck, Reclining Nude,
1906
Matisse, Blue Nude, Souvenir of
Biskra, 1907
Henri Matisse
Reclining Nude I (Aurora)
1907
bronze; 13 9/16 x 19 5/8 x 11 in
Fluid line
Flat color
Curvilinear (arabesq
Biomorphic forms
Matisse Harmony in Red, 1908, 69 x 85”
Matisse, The Dinner Table, 1896
Matisse, Harmony in Red, 1908
Matisse, Bathers with a Turtle, 1908
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
and Matisse's Bathers with a Turtle (1908)
Matisse, Dance, (first version) 1909
Matisse, Dance II, 1910
Matisse, Music, 1909
Matisse, The Conversation, 1909
Henri Matisse. Spanish Still Life (Seville II). 1911
Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911, o/c, 71 x 86”
Henri Matisse.
The Piano Lesson.
1916.
Oil on canvas
8' 1/2" x 6' 11 3/4"
Odalisques by Matisse
Matisse, JAZZ, 1947
Matisse, Chapel, 1940-s & 50’s