Matisse His Art And His Textiles

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Royal Academy Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse, His Art and His Textiles written by Hilary Spurling and published by Royal Academy Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of an exhibition by the same name to be held at Musaee Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambraesis, Oct. 23, 2004-January 25 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 5-May 30 2005, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 23-September 25, 2005.

Author : Henri Matisse
Publisher : MFA Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780878468430
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse in the Studio written by Henri Matisse and published by MFA Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the Royal Academy exhibition 'Matisse in the Studio', this book is the first in English to explore the essential role that Henri Matisse's personal collection of objects played in his studio practice. Featured frequently in the modern master's bold paintings, drawings, and cut-outs, and influencing the development of his work in sculpture, Matisse's objects formed a secret history hiding in plain sight. Works that span the artist's entire career are presented here alongside the objects that inspired them, from Asian vases and African masks to intricate textiles from the Islamic world. With lush illustrations and archival images, Matisse in the Studio provides exceptional insights into the world of the artist at work.

Author : Laurence Anholt
Publisher : Anholt's Artists Books for Chi
ISBN 13 : 9780764160479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse written by Laurence Anholt and published by Anholt's Artists Books for Chi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the artist Matisse designing the Chapelle du Rosaire.

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0679434291
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse the Master written by Hilary Spurling and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence of the 20th century in paintings.

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
ISBN 13 : 9781903973479
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse, His Art and His Textiles written by Hilary Spurling and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textiles were the key to Matisse's visual imagination. His ancestors had been weavers for generations: the textures and vibrancy of cloth were in his blood. Although Matisse was to outgrow every other influence, textiles retained their power to inspire his imagination throughout his life. His studio in Nice was a treasure house of exotic Persian carpets, delicate Arab embroideries, richly hued African wall hangings, curtains, costumes, patterned screens and backcloths. This sumptuously illustrated book, which includes over 100 works by Matisse together with numerous colourful fabrics, is the catalogue of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis; the Royal Academy of Arts, London; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Matisse's relationship with the textiles that surrounded him from his earliest days is revealed here for the first time. Charting how the fabrics he painted from became the very fabric of his paintings, the authors examine the ways in which Matisse used what he called his "working library" of textiles to furnish, order and compose some of the twentieth century's most pioneering works of art.

Author : Rebecca A. Rabinow
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588394670
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matisse written by Rebecca A. Rabinow and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout his long career, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) continually expanded the boundaries of his art. By repeating images in pairs, trios, and series, he conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting." In this fresh approach to a much-studied artist, prominent scholars from the United States and Europe examine more than sixty works in concise chapters that focus on this aspect of Matisse's working process. From early pairs such as Young Sailor I and II (1906) and Le Lexe I and II (1907-8) through a series of late studio scenes from Vence (1946-48), Matisse is shown revisiting a given theme with the aim of devising innovative, often radical, solutions to such problems as how to portray light, handle paint, select colors, and manipulate perspective. New technical studies of the early paired works and photographs documenting the evolution of his later paintings help to elucidate Matisse's complex evolution. In numerous excerpts from letters and interviews, he is revealed as an artist who regularly questioned himself and his methods, a man of powerful intellect who regarded each new painting as an adventure. A significant addition to art historical literature, Matisse: In Search of True Painting is a revelatory study of a seminal figure in 20th-century modernism."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Karl D. Buchberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849761291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henri Matisse written by Karl D. Buchberg and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Matisse is one of the leading figures of modern art. His unparalleled cut-outs are among the most significant of any artist's late works. When ill health first prevented Matisse from painting, he began to cut into painted paper with scissors as his primary technique to make maquettes for a number of commissions, from books and stained glass window designs to tapestries and ceramics. Taking the form of a 'studio diary', the catalogue re-examines the cut-outs in terms of the methods and materials that Matisse used, and looks at the tensions in the works between finish and process; and drawings and colour.

Author : Geoffrey Rayner
Publisher : Antique Collector's Club
ISBN 13 : 9781851496297
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artists' Textiles written by Geoffrey Rayner and published by Antique Collector's Club. This book was released on 2012 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This stunning book offers a unique perspective on textile designs... a beautiful document of the partnership between artists and manufacturers. Those interested in textiles as well as students of design will find it refreshing and inspirational." Librar

Author : John Jacobus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500080153
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henri Matisse written by John Jacobus and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great pioneering masters of twentieth century art, Henri Matisse was an extremely versatile and productive artist. Although he was an outstanding sculptor and draftsman. he was most widely known and loved for his paintings. And his paintings-vibrant, colourful, and diverse-are the focus of this book. John Jacobus, the Leon E. Williams Professor of Art at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, tells the facinating story of Matisse's life, exploring the relation of his work to the art of the past and showing how it contributed to the art of today. In this volumes forty stunning colour plates the artists most important paintings are reproduced, and each is accompanied by a detailed commentary on the page facing the illustration. With 105 illustarions, 40 in colour.

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375711333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Matisse written by Hilary Spurling and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images--yet, despite all the books devoted to his work, the man himself has remained a mystery. Now, in the hands of the superb biographer Hilary Spurling, the unknown Matisse becomes visible at last. Matisse was born into a family of shopkeepers in 1869, in a gloomy textile town in the north of France. His environment was brightened only by the sumptuous fabrics produced by the local weavers--magnificent brocades and silks that offered Matisse his first vision of light and color, and which later became a familiar motif in his paintings. He did not find his artistic vocation until after leaving school, when he struggled for years with his father, who wanted him to take over the family seed-store. Escaping to Paris, where he was scorned by the French art establishment, Matisse lived for fifteen years in great poverty--an ordeal he shared with other young artists and with Camille Joblaud, the mother of his daughter, Marguerite. But Matisse never gave up. Painting by painting, he struggled toward the revelation that beckoned to him, learning about color, light, and form from such mentors as Signac, Pissarro, and the Australian painter John Peter Russell, who ruled his own art colony on an island off the coast of Brittany. In 1898, after a dramatic parting from Joblaud, Matisse met and married Amélie Parayre, who became his staunchest ally. She and their two sons, Jean and Pierre, formed with Marguerite his indispensable intimate circle. From the first day of his wedding trip to Ajaccio in Corsica, Matisse realized that he had found his spiritual home: the south, with its heat, color, and clear light. For years he worked unceasingly toward the style by which we know him now. But in 1902, just as he was on the point of achieving his goals as a painter, he suddenly left Paris with his family for the hometown he detested, and returned to the somber, muted palette he had so recently discarded. Why did this happen? Art historians have called this regression Matisse's "dark period," but none have ever guessed the reason for it. What Hilary Spurling has uncovered is nothing less than the involvement of Matisse's in-laws, the Parayres, in a monumental scandal which threatened to topple the banking system and government of France. The authorities, reeling from the divisive Dreyfus case, smoothed over the so-called Humbert Affair, and did it so well that the story of this twenty-year scam--and the humiliation and ruin its climax brought down on the unsuspecting Matisse and his family--have been erased from memory until now. It took many months for Matisse to come to terms with this disgrace, and nearly as long to return to the bold course he had been pursuing before the interruption. What lay ahead were the summers in St-Tropez and Collioure; the outpouring of "Fauve" paintings; Matisse's experiments with sculpture; and the beginnings of acceptance by dealers and collectors, which, by 1908, put his life on a more secure footing. Hilary Spurling's discovery of the Humbert Affair and its effects on Matisse's health and work is an extraordinary revelation, but it is only one aspect of her achievement. She enters into Matisse's struggle for expression and his tenacious progress from his northern origins to the life-giving light of the Mediterranean with rare sensitivity. She brings to her task an astonishing breadth of knowledge about his family, about fin-de-siècle Paris, the conventional Salon painters who shut their doors on him, his artistic comrades, his early patrons, and his incipient rivalry with Picasso. In Hilary Spurling, Matisse has found a biographer with a detective's ability to unearth crucial facts, the narrative power of a novelist, and profound empathy for her subject.