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Showing posts with label Matisse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matisse. Show all posts
Friday, July 6, 2012
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thursday, December 11, 2008
open window
As I glanced out the window this evening onto the fourth little winter storm of the season since October (yes, fourth, and yes, October,) I thought of this Matisse painting that I really like. It is a nice image as I look ahead just a few weeks to our trip to Belize. It is really hard to imagine that after the snow and cold of upstate New York, we will be breathing in the warm, moist, rainforest air of Central America in less than a month. Did I mention I probably won't have Internet access for the first 4-5 days of the trip? Besides the weather, that too is a bit hard to imagine.
Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
gold fish, 1911
Henri Matisse is one of my favorite artists. I have a print of this painting in my home and on the wall in my office. Some days at work when I have a "Calgon, take me away" moment, I stare into this print and escape into relaxation breathing. I love the brilliant colors, the lines, the context and perspective, and of course, the geraniums. I picture myself on a screened in porch in the moist humidity of the plants watching the goldfish swim contentedly in their bowl. (Ahhhhh [exhale]).
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