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Xavier Girard

    Matisse : "une splendeur inouïe"
    Matisse
    Henri Matisse
    Matisse in Nice, 1917-1954
    • Matisse

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Premier analyste de son œuvre, Matisse s'est tu, obstinément, sur lui-même. La biographie s'arrête où commence la continuité réelle de la vie. A la porte de l'atelier. Où le temps s'efface au cadran de la création. Et cède la place aux murs empourprés, à la clarté phosphorescente des tableaux. Mais qu'on y prenne garde. Les grands aplats des rouges et des bleus, les mouvements d'une ligne désancrée et la lumière éblouissante d'une image dessinée à même la couleur, toutes ces inventions, si semblables au bonheur, ne forment pas des lieux idéaux ou sacrés mais les espaces d'un travail ininterrompu. A travers lequel Matisse chercha l'allègement dans la somptuosité.

      Matisse1997
      4.0
    • Matisse in Nice, 1917-1954

      • 79 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      For Matisse, Nice was more a state of mind than a place. At his happiest and most creative in this warm, light-filled environment, he produced there some of his most beautiful works: luminous vistas; sensuous models in bright, flower-filled interiors; open windows looking out onto dazzling blue seas. From 1917 until 1954, the influence of Nice pervades Matisse's paintings and sculptures. The colours of his radiant masterpieces are represented in the plates contained in this work, while a text explores the depth of his artistic vision and the influences of the South of France.

      Matisse in Nice, 1917-19541996
    • Henri Matisse

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Traces Henri Matisse's search for balance, purity and serenity, from the chromatic brilliance of his Fauve period, through his travels, the Orient, geometric synthesis, and the odalisques to the triumph when, at the age of eighty, he invented his gouache cut-outs. He is acknowledged as an artist whose canvases are difficult to reproduce in print.

      Henri Matisse1991
      4.3