{"id":754,"date":"2011-11-03T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=754"},"modified":"2011-11-03T20:13:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:13:37","slug":"matisse-integration-with-shapes-and-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Matisse – (Integration with lines and shapes)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Henri Matisse - Portrait of Greta Prozer - 147 x 93 cm - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n

In this delightfully reduced and and rhythmically distorted painting, Matisse has integrated the subject with line and shapes elegantly.<\/p>\n

I love the rhythm of lines and how they integrate with the figure.\u00a0 Lets begin with the line at the top of the chair taking your eye across the rim of her hat, which then loops down to a\u00a0 vertical black line indicating the chair back at her left.\u00a0 Which then connects to a faint line that attaches to the left arm of the chair.\u00a0 The vertical front of the chair arm then integrates beautifully with her leg, taking us to the bottom of her dress.\u00a0 Matisse then provides us with lines leading us back to the top of the chair.\u00a0 This is just one of a few rhythmic paths for us to engage with.<\/p>\n

There are a number of very interesting considerations in this painting.\u00a0 One that stands out is her shoes.\u00a0 Why do they blend with the background?\u00a0 The reason is Matisse wants your eye to move along the bottom of her dress or under the black shape.\u00a0 If he hadn’t blended them, they would be competing with these rhythmic lines, returning you to her eyes, and she is now gracefully floating.<\/p>\n

Rhythm needs harmonious structure and Matisse has balanced them masterfully with a motif of rectangles holding the composition together beautifully.\u00a0 We first have the strong black one at the bottom under the chair, then another on her chest and a fantastic one under her chin.\u00a0(They just need to have the sense of being rectangles.)<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How they hold the composition together is most impressive and I often think of this painting when I am working.<\/em><\/p>\n

Two other great considerations in this painting are distortion and reduction, which comes to the forefront when an artist is thinking composition before information.<\/p>\n

Ask yourself why?\u00a0 I will talk about this in future posts,<\/p>\n

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In this delightfully reduced and and rhythmically distorted painting, Matisse has integrated the subject with line and shapes elegantly. I love the rhythm of lines and how they integrate with the figure.\u00a0 Lets begin with the line at the top … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,13,4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}