Matisse, Life in Color Masterworks from the Baltimore Museum of Art at SAMA Through September 7 By Betsy Beckmann – Originally published in The View
suggesting emotion rather than simply documenting what the eye sees. “ The challenge of seeing Matisse involves reconciling his obvious sur face charm—the bright colors, the pleasing patterns, the agreeable subjects—with his pictorial complexity and psychological subtlety,” e n r i M a t i s s e ( Fre n c h , 1 8 6 9 - 1 9 5 4 ) was wrote Jack Flam in Matisse in the Cone Collection: one of the most important and influential The Poetics of Vision. “ The poetics of his work artists of the twentieth century. His grows out of the way he reinvented what he saw paintings liberated color and line from being purely as part of the process of trying to perceive and descriptive to becoming free and expressive— record it in a meaningful way….” Drawn from The Baltimore Museum of Art’s renowned Matisse collection, this sweeping exhibition features more than eighty paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, spanning six decades of the artist’s prolific career.
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