Matisse

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Examines traces of different styles of art from various periods in Henri Matisse's 1911 painting "The Red Studio." Indirect and direct influences, including Mary Cassatt, Van Gogh and other Post-Impressionists, Greek vase painting, High Gothic and Early Renaissance one-point perspective. Matisse's artistic purpose in the painting. Use of color as expression.

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"It is possible to detect traces of several different styles of art from various periods in Henri Matisse's 1911 painting Red Studio (oil on canvas, 71 1/4" x 86 1/4"). In some cases these traces are the sign of direct influence. An example of this is the influence of artists, such as the nineteenth century painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt, who first integrated ideas from Japanese art into the Western tradition. A second example of an immediate influence is the use of intense, unusual colors as a means of emotional expression found in the work of Vincent van Gogh and other Post-Impressionist painters. Other relationships between Red Studio and earlier art seem to be purely coincidental. The simple lines of many of the objects in Matisse's painting, for example, bear similarities to Greek red-figure vase painting from the early classical era. But there are ..."

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