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Friday 28 March 2014

A Glimpse Through French And Russian-French Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Matisse paintings began as still-lives and landscapes in the traditional Flemish style with reasonable proficiency. Henri-Emile-Benoit Matisse was a French artist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor, primarily known as a painter.

The first contemporary art experimentations by Henri earned for him a rebellious reputation. They also had the aura of gloom because these early Matisse paintings were done using a dark palette.

It was between 1897 and 1898 that Matisse paintings took a complete change of style with their introduction to Impressionism. The first masterpiece among the Matisse paintings was The Dinner Table, completed in 1897. It was considered radical with its impressionist aspects at the time.

Henri's rebellious talents were displayed in Matisse paintings by 1899. They, however, did not have a clear direction. Sculpture became the discipline Henri turned to when he got stuck with his paintings. Sculpture helped Henri organize his thoughts and sensations.

Influenced by the works of the post-impressionist painters and the Japanese artists, Matisse paintings made color its crucial element. This contributed to a reconstruction in the still life philosophy of Henri. Patterned after Paul Cezanne's fragmented planes, Matisse paintings were stretched to a forced contemplation of the color surfaces.

From 1899 to 1905, Matisse paintings made use of the pointillist technique as adopted from Signac. Meanwhile, in 1902-03, they went back to dark palettes, briefly showing a movement back to naturalism.

Exemplified in Birth, The Deal and A Holy Family, the early Marc Chagall paintings featured fabulous and metaphoric images of everyday life. Referred to as the quintessential Jewish artist of the 20th century, Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist.

Aside from demonstrating a perfect feeling of colors and a mastery of the Fauvism methods, Marc Chagall paintings also exemplified a mastery of Cubism, Futurism and Orphism, new trends and tendencies gaining recognition at the time. However, these new styles were reshaped in the Marc way and can be gleamed from his depiction of The Violinist, To My Betrothed, Golgotha and Paris Through the Window.

Filled with love and nostalgia are Marc Chagall paintings such as The Pinch of Snuff, The Cattle Dealer and I and the Village. However, during the First World War, the Marc Chagall paintings became very multifaceted in their everyday life representation despite remaining immersed in nostalgia.

Among the Marc Chagall paintings completed during this period were Window at the Dacha, War, Red Jew, Feast of the Tabernacles, Birthday, Pink Lovers, The Promenade and Bella with White Collar.

War reflected human grief and hardships of war. Red Jew and Feast of the Tabernacles were strongly religious Marc Chagall paintings resulting from intensification of the Jewish persecution. The last 4 Marc Chagall paintings were lyrical works filled with love towards a woman named Bella.




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