*Matisse, The Joy of Life, 1905-1906, o/c, 5’8” x 7’9”,
Barnes Fdn. Salon des Indépendents, 1906
“wild beasts”
“flat, broad colors, no shades of color, sticking to same tone”
-decorative quality
-supposed to imply pleasure and harmony
-must strive for individualism
-exploiting physical sensations intended
-we need to break through artificial restraints
-very large paintings
-somewhere in joy of life (mini dance in the distance)
-scale is askew with no difference in color tones
-nude figures
-quest to arrange of pairings & figures, very sexual, walking, embracing each other
-arbitrary colors (unrealistic) pink sky, purple grass
-feeling of wellbeing
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