ART/ARCHITECTURE - Henri Matisse

He wasn’t just a painter of pretty things, he was – beneath all that – a painter of a deeply serious quality: hope.
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aromatisse as an artist who can help us
handle suffering and become more
optimistic but to understand the best we
need to think about the role of happy
art the culturally get nervous about
careful sweetheart
they worry that pretty pieces of work
are in denial about how bad the state of
the world is and how much suffering
there is in every life
look at this picture of sailing boats
shooting about in the Mediterranean
beyond the palm trees with a cheesy
looking woman sitting on the sofa as the
artist forgotten that the world is
filled with inequality corruption and
war
the fear is that we might get so
absorbed in having a nice time that will
forget about the bad things and wont
trouble ourselves to do anything about
them
however these worries are generally
misplaced far from taking - Rosie and
sentimental view of things in general we
tend to suffer from excessive glue
our problem is actually that we feel
debilitating the small and weak in the
face of our troubles
it's because we feel overwhelmed and
helpless that we record into ourselves
cheerfulness is an achievement and hope
is something to be celebrated
optimism is important because many
outcomes are determined by how much of
it we bring to the task
it's an important ingredient to success
this flies in the face of an elite field
that skill is the primary requirement to
a good life yet in many cases the
difference between success and failure
is determined by nothing more than one
sense of what is possible we stand in
need of tools that can help preserve our
more hopeful dispositions and art can
help us
one of the primary things that are can
do forces bolster our spirits and help
us see the good in life so that we can
face its challenges and there is
disappointment with greater resilience
determination and hope the dancers and
Matisse's dance are not in denial of the
troubles of this planet
the picture should not be taken as a
suggestion that all is well and that
women are always taking delight in each
other's existence but from within a
normal and that is a conflicted
perfect relationship with reality one
can look at the women as an
encouragement they put one in touch with
the Blythe carefree part of oneself
which can help on coping with the
inevitable projections and humiliations
Matisse new huge amount about suffering
a glass of one of his self portrait
shows us as much his ability to Harbor
such complexity should build our
confidence in the attitude of his
pleasing hopeful charming work
well matey's knew all about tragedy is
acquainted with it made me all the more
alive - its opposite
he was born in eighteen sixty nine into
a relatively prosperous family
he wasn't supposed to be an artist his
father was a grain and hardware imagined
it was keen that his son should have a
lucrative safe and respectable career as
a lawyer in his early twenties Matisse
became desperate to leave the law office
and his father was opposed
eventually his father relented and
allowed Matthias to study up but only if
he kept the most conservative and
traditional styles
the message from his father was keep
painting like this and I'll keep paying
your allowance in order to develop as a
painter of bright joyful and sent to his
paintings
matey's had to face down his father
embrace poverty and be reviled by his
teachers and mentors in the years before
the outbreak of the first world war
machines began to build up a successful
career he was selling a few paintings
and getting well known and adventurous
and artistic circles
just as he seemed to be making it the
whole world started to fall apart yet in
a year of the battle of the some matey's
painted the window
it's not that Matisse didn't care about
the trenches the day's journey from
Paris but that there looming presence
intensified his sense of the loveliness
of a glimpse of a tree through the
cabinet curtains or his delight in the
pattern on the floorboards or the sense
of the freshness and charm of a bowl of
flowers in a simple but unpretentious
apartment in the city
it's as if he is reminding himself and
us that these things still exist
they haven't been destroyed it's not the
work of somebody using different it is
created and recognition of how easily we
could be paralyzed by despair and the
hint of light released through the
window
it might speak kindly to us even today
when we are overburdened by the sense of
how much weight
life has later there were more private
promise Matisse was diagnosed with
intestinal cancer
he was involved in a protracted and
highly painful legal dispute with his
estranged wife and still his cheerful
colors didn't waver in 1942 when Paris
had fallen and the german 6th army was
advancing through Russia towards the
southern oil fields
matey's painted a number of paintings of
dancers with fabulous legs reclining on
big soft
I'm Jess the most poignant of his
cheerful hopeful works were created
right at the end of his life in around
nineteen fifty when he was in his
eighties he had been an invalid for
years mostly bedridden but occasionally
able to get around in his wheelchair he
knew he was facing death
the deep blue and yellow and the simple
pattern of the stained glass windows
seemed to glow with delight and
existence but Matisse wasn't expressing
a cheerfulness he had recently
experienced the vulnerable suffering
great artist was attempting to ward off
his own fears of gloom and despondency
and he was reminding us through his
genius that there is nothing as serious
as knowing how to hope