All classes this week: Matisse again.
i can't get enough of this brillant artist, a constant inspiration to me.
His "French Window at Collioure" from 1915 is a redux of a 1905 painting, "Collioure", which is full of color and redolent with a rich range of floral and nautical Fauvism.
In this work he discards all romance and decorativeness for stark mystery and viewer participation. This work predates the Minimalist paintings of the late 1960's and 1970's by more than half a century.
Try taking a complex decorative recent piece you have done and strip it to its essence. See you next week, john.
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