MATTERS OF OBSESSION: A personal contemplation on Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio — L’Atelier Rouge

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For the first time in over a century, the MoMA in New York is currently exhibiting Matisse’s painting The Red Studio as part of an exhibition of the same title. Also showing are six surviving paintings, ceramics, and the three sculptures that are ...

popular with the Renaissance and later masters who mixed it with white for flesh tones

There is a seamless apparently effortlessness in the work typical of much of his work which refers to Matisse’s idea that art should be a comfortable armchair. Yet at the time of its completion, it was seen as anything but a comfortable armchair. It was either ignored or disdained. It shakes up the old surface reality and ushers in a new reality closer to the particle and wave theory — the super positionality of quantum physics — where one thing can be another at the same time.The Art of Life,

Many regard a genius as being ahead of their time. Instead, it is that they are absolutely of their time and more importantly they are able to express it. This is then the genius of the Red Studio. Intuitively and instinctively Matisse has his paintbrush on the pulse of space and time.

 

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