Matisse

Collection remains are the predominant reason for many of museum's existence. Most museums collect because they believe that objects are important to the present generation. Taking this trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to visit Henri Matisse and his textiles was essential. This showed me exactly how Matisse a superior painter from the 19th and 20th century left over a great number of paintings to illustrate to the world. This museum had a variety of different art sculptures and paintings. The museum was also filled with diverse artists from different time era's that brought a new style to each particular image. Matisse form of art caught the eye of so many people including myself, that is why it was so hard to actually pick only three of his paintings to describe. The three works that was chosen were Pansies, Still Life with Blue Tablecloth, and Seated Odalisque.

Henri Matisse liked for his paintings to be real and decorative. He was hardworking and dedicated to his career. Henri Matisse was the leader of the Fauvist movement of the early modernist art, a method that used true brilliant color and often distorted brush strokes on canvas. Matisse's new approach influenced future artist. One of his paintings "Pansies" was painted in 1903 it was also oil on paper mounted on panel. The size of the painting is 48.9 x 45.1 cm. The painting consist of a brown wooden table that has a glass cup of clear water. Inside of the clear glass water there are flowers placed inside of the cup. The flowers are described to be pansies which are annual garden flowers that bloom in just about every color imaginable. Some of the pansies flowers fell out of the glass cup as if they were results of dead flowers. The ones that remained inside of the glass are live, well and healthy. In the back ground there is wall paper composed of colors such as gray mixed in with a dark shade of blue. There are different shades of blue in the background appearance. There are also different forms on the wall which symbols the flowers inside of the cup. The outline of the forms are a darker blue which brings out the painting.

The next painting is the "Still Life with Blue Tablecloth". This painting is very colorful. The bright colors are really the first attraction to the painting. In the painting there are three objects located directly in the middle of the table. The first a orange tea container, the bottom piece of the container