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vonorloff
03-17-2001, 10:22 PM
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Matisse in his Paris studio 1939.
I wonder if anyone else finds this photo as amusing as I do?

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VonOrloff
Mario
03-17-2001, 11:02 PM
Yes, I find it amusing, also..It seems, to me, to show Matisse as a "decorative" painter...he looks like a doctor examining a patient and then there's that complicated painting in the foreground, all color and design...kind of like he was working out a formula for a new design while observing "the patient"....a little cold and stirile, to me.

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Painting the light reflecting from an object is different than painting the object
CkA
03-21-2001, 11:13 AM
Originally posted by Mario:
a little cold and stirile, to me.



I disagree. I think he is holding that white pad in such a strategic position as to hide his enthusiasm... http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/wink.gif



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Cindy!!!

"Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being." Frederick Franck
vonorloff
03-21-2001, 01:34 PM
Originally posted by CkA:
I disagree. I think he is holding that white pad in such a strategic position as to hide his enthusiasm... http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/wink.gif



cka
lol
m
More power to the old geezer,
dont ya think?
http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/wink.gif



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VonOrloff
Mario
03-22-2001, 08:34 AM
"
What interests me most
is neither still life nor landscape
but the human figure.


It is through it
that I best succeed in expressing
the nearly religious feeling
that I have towards life.


~ Henri Matisse "

Nice quote from your site, CkA. Also enjoyed looking at your work...seems inspired by the american southwest, some of it..

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Painting the light reflecting from an object is different than painting the object
cagathoc
03-23-2001, 10:15 AM
Originally posted by vonorloff:
More power to the old geezer,
dont ya think?
http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/wink.gif



Absolutely! http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
cagathoc
03-23-2001, 10:15 AM
Originally posted by Mario:
[Bseems inspired by the american southwest, some of it..

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Thanks! Never been to the SW but my husband is from Cyprus and we got there every year. The climate is similar.