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The fabric of dreams.(Matisse's fabric collections and paitings)
In The Unknown Matisse, the first volume of her excellent two-part biography, Hilary Spurting reminds us that this master of radiant hues and dazzling evocations of light spent the first twenty-one years of his life in gritty, industrial north-eastern France, near the Flemish border, a region he never returned to, apart from obligatory family visits, after he left it for Paris in 1891. Not only was the landscape dreary and the light flat and gray, but the places where Matisse was raised were devoid of significant architecture, museums, or galleries; virtually no public art was on view. What was there in the way of visual stimulation in these bleak towns? Textiles, for ...
- WORKS ON CANVAS; AT THE MET: TEXTILES AND THE ART OF HENRI MATISSE.
- Magazine article from: Daily News Record June 20, 2005 700+ words
...of patterned textiles that he called...that it was his textile collection that...curator of "Matisse: The Fabric...His Art and His Textiles," the exhibit...Matisse took those textiles from props to...For example: "Matisse first saw the...purchased the textile and it ...
- Schmattes of Matisse: Painter Was Obsessed With Textile Design.(Culture)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) August 1, 2005 700+ words
...His Art and His Textiles, which has now...exhibition of Matisse's work that...aesthetics of textile design. It thus...out that the Matisse family had for...involved with the textile industry in northern...France and that Matisse himself had been...other words, textiles have ...
- Unfolding Matisse: Henri Matisse's "working library" of textiles, packed away...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Schwabsky, Barry September 1, 2005 700+ words
...Humbert scandal on Matisse's life and perhaps...argument behind "Matisse, His Art and His Textiles," which I saw...region where the textile industry dominated...alongside some 80 of Matisse's works, the...vivid sense of how textiles were, in every...
- Pairing the art and textiles of Matisse.(rugs and carpets industry)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Art Business News September 1, 2005 700+ words
"Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams--His Art and His Textiles" is on display at...alongside examples of Matisse's personal collection...of the artist's textile collection, which...The selection of textiles range from a fragment...
- Art on your sleeve: Dominic Lutyens visits Artists' Textiles in Britain...
- Magazine article from: Design Week Lutyens, Dominic March 20, 2003 700+ words
...rhetorical. In fact, such textiles would prove phenomenally...called 'Artists' Textiles in Britain 1945-1970...the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, Graham...We're only showing textiles that were produced by...onto fabric -- take Matisse's odalisques on screen...
- MATISSE: FABRIC MASTER.
- Magazine article from: WWD June 23, 2005 700+ words
...Textiles," examines how textiles, which Matisse referred to as his "working...This is the first time textiles that belonged to Matisse will be on public display...just extraordinary." Matisse's love of textiles is said to have started...
- No more Mr Nice Guy; Matisse.(Hilary Spurling biography, exhibit of Henri...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 12, 2005 700+ words
...such criticism followed Matisse throughout his career...from him. In 1910, Matisse came close to having...loyal patron, a Russian textile magnate named Sergei...mediocre artist, but cabled Matisse several days later to...grown up in a world of textiles: Matissein Bohain...
- Rediscovering Matisse.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Kramer, Hilton October 1, 2005 700+ words
...twenty years before Matisse finally left home...principal product was textiles, but sugar-beet...1869, the year of Matisse's birth. The...sugar refineries and textile mills. The streams...in the shade," Matisse said sombrely...early encounter with textiles in that grim setting...
Source: HighBeam Research, The fabric of dreams.(Matisse's fabric collections and paitings)