#Paris In July Henri Matisse

• Author: S. Blum
• Title: Henri Matisse: Rooms with a view
• Published: 2010
• #ParisInJuly

 

Quick Scan:

1. Matisse studied and rearranged his rooms constantly.
2. When he lived in hotels and small apartments his living quarters
3. usually doubled as his studio.
4. In a continuous engagement with these spaces he produced
5. not only singular masterpieces but also developed a
6. theme as rich as the traditional landscape or portrait.
7. In each new phase of his art and with every change of residence.
8. Matisse reinvented the theme of the window.

 

Conclusion:

1. This books weighs 3,5 pounds…a real ‘coffee table book’.
2. But it is so worth your effort to carry it home from the library!
3. 5 chapters with so many beautiful images and illuminating
4. information about Matisse’s paintings
5. Shirley Neilsen Blum (1932) is an
6. American art historian, professor and author.
7. She taught me that Matisse loved goldfish in bowls,
8. that there is so much beauty in a window with curtains and awnings….
9. and showed me Matisse’s magnificent design (pg 172-179)
10. of a Catholic chapel in Vence France.
11. I’ve been to the Vatican in Rome, to St. Patrick’s in NYC,
12. ….visited the Notre Dame in Paris….but I would love to
13. visit the South of France and bask in the artistic wonder
14. that is “The Chapel of the Rosary”  (see Google) by Henri Matisse!