Matisse: The Greatest Art.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 32137 |
| Format | 22.3 x 27 |
| Détails | 172, numerous color illustrations, publisher's cloth bound. |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754116800 |
"The artist must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did as a child." Throughout his career as a painter, which lasted nearly sixty years, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) remained faithful to this principle: to maintain a fresh perspective, to observe each thing as a discovery, thus leaving plenty of room for emotion. However, the artist added, "looking at something as if we had never seen it before requires a great deal of courage": for although instinct seemed indispensable to him, it could only be expressed through constant work and reflection. It was therefore by combining spontaneity and method that Matisse conducted all his creations, around what was his essential concern: color. Destined to shake up the modern perspective, his work was expressed through a variety of techniques that he always sought to deepen and renew: painting, drawing, sculpture, illustrated books, and even this singular invention, the cut-out gouaches produced at the end of his life.
This book recounts this incredible plastic invention, through some fifty emblematic works, and thus retraces in their chronology the painter's incessant research in this field, from the famous "Fauve" period, a magnificent explosion of pure colors begun in Collioure, through the sumptuous canvases created under the southern sun, to the final "cut-out papers" which allowed the old man to draw directly with scissors in color. If certain influences were decisive, that of Cézanne to begin with, but also later those of the Orient, whose shimmering arabesques he sublimated in his Odalisques, it is these numerous travels which have over time woven a true melting pot of sources of inspiration. "You are going to simplify painting," his master Gustave Moreau predicted to him: Matisse's work clearly shows how his genius expressed itself with immense freedom, escaping all constraints to express a profound joy of living.
The L'ART+GRAND collection, presented in a luxurious binding, offers, through an educational text, an introduction to the greatest artists in the history of art. In addition to some sixty of the most famous paintings, the book reproduces six exceptional paintings in the form of large-format LEAFLETS that allow you to observe these masterpieces in the smallest details. L'ART+GRAND thus offers a unique immersion in the material and the pictorial touch.
"The artist must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did as a child." Throughout his career as a painter, which lasted nearly sixty years, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) remained faithful to this principle: to maintain a fresh perspective, to observe each thing as a discovery, thus leaving plenty of room for emotion. However, the artist added, "looking at something as if we had never seen it before requires a great deal of courage": for although instinct seemed indispensable to him, it could only be expressed through constant work and reflection. It was therefore by combining spontaneity and method that Matisse conducted all his creations, around what was his essential concern: color. Destined to shake up the modern perspective, his work was expressed through a variety of techniques that he always sought to deepen and renew: painting, drawing, sculpture, illustrated books, and even this singular invention, the cut-out gouaches produced at the end of his life.
This book recounts this incredible plastic invention, through some fifty emblematic works, and thus retraces in their chronology the painter's incessant research in this field, from the famous "Fauve" period, a magnificent explosion of pure colors begun in Collioure, through the sumptuous canvases created under the southern sun, to the final "cut-out papers" which allowed the old man to draw directly with scissors in color. If certain influences were decisive, that of Cézanne to begin with, but also later those of the Orient, whose shimmering arabesques he sublimated in his Odalisques, it is these numerous travels which have over time woven a true melting pot of sources of inspiration. "You are going to simplify painting," his master Gustave Moreau predicted to him: Matisse's work clearly shows how his genius expressed itself with immense freedom, escaping all constraints to express a profound joy of living.
The L'ART+GRAND collection, presented in a luxurious binding, offers, through an educational text, an introduction to the greatest artists in the history of art. In addition to some sixty of the most famous paintings, the book reproduces six exceptional paintings in the form of large-format LEAFLETS that allow you to observe these masterpieces in the smallest details. L'ART+GRAND thus offers a unique immersion in the material and the pictorial touch.