Matisse first made such uncompromising use of this compositional device here in the red room.
Red room matisse meaning.
9 matisse turned to a motif common in the works created.
Harmony in red the red room 1908 is considered by some art historians to be matisse s masterpiece matisse was greatly influenced by the post impressionists van gogh gauguin paul cezanne and van gogh was an ardent admirer of japanese art and motifs he developed his style using areas of flat brilliant and often unnatural colour and invariably outlined his forms in a manner.
Harmony in red is a painting by french artist henri matisse from 1908 it is considered by some critics to be matisse s masterpiece.
The painting was commissioned as harmony in blue but matisse was dissatisfied with the result and so he painted it over with his.
In his paris studio with its windows looking out over a monastery garden in 1908 matisse created one of his most important works of the period 1908 1913.
In 1908 he painted his famous harmony in red which although the scene resembles a dining room is really a view of the artist inside his studio inside.
Around 1908 matisse started to go his own way he turned into more decorative way of thinking about color.
Matisse s red studio is important for its use of color and its flattened perspective his altering of reality and our perception of space.
1 matisse must have felt that too.
He painted it in 1911 after his exposure to traditional islamic art during a visit to spain which influenced his use of pattern decoration and depiction of space.
This fauvist painting follows the example set by impressionism with the overall lack of a central focal point.
But in affirming the flatness of the red colour the artist managed to create within it the impression of space space within which the female figure bending over the vase could move and within which the sharp angled view of the chair seemed natural.
9 the artist himself called this a decorative panel and it was intended for the dining room in the moscow mansion of the famous russian collector sergey shchukin.
