But, dubbed a fauve , a wild beast, in his youth, Matisse refused to give up, and Sooke tells how a fierce determination to carry on gripped the artist:. In those little moments of calm, between two pangs, I imagined the inside of a tomb: a little space completely enclosed, with no doors. The operation saved his life, but left him too weak to stand to paint, compelled to use a wheelchair and often too frail to even get out of bed. Sooke writes:. In the end, his resurrection lasted much longer.
More than a decade, in fact. In that time Matisse invented a ground-breaking and effortless new way of making art: the cut-out. In his last years, in defiance of his deteriorating physical condition, Matisse developed a thrilling new method of making art using scissors and painted sheets of paper that allowed him to work with brilliant colours even when he was bedbound.
It would become one of the most radical and unprecedented inventions of any artist of the 20th century. Sooke gives us an engrossing account of these last years and their miraculous creations — from Jazz to the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, from Oceania to the Blue Nudes and Creole Dancer. Matisse regarded the chapel as his masterpiece, yet he was an atheist.
We visited the chapel in and, like Alastair Sooke, I too was moved to tears by its simplicity, the shimmering light and vibrant colours that pour through the stained glass windows, and the sense of both calm and delight that suffuses the space.
Sooke quotes Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, as saying:. It has to be one of the great works made anywhere at at any time. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. He conceived in his studio of Nice, one of his last important works, the chapel of Vence, a large part of the models was realized by the technique of cut papers. The funeral took place in the church of Cimiez convent. Two years later, he was buried, in a new place specially offered by the city of Nice, along the Roman Way, close to Cimiez cemetery.
The grave is simple and modest, directed southward, summarizing so symbolically Matisse's life. Inscrivez-vous :. Ajouter les fichiers. In his works of the s and s, Matisse continued to delight and surprise his viewers with his signature elements of saturated colors, flattened pictorial space, limited detail and strong outlines. In , Matisse began spending winters on the Mediterranean, and in , he moved to the city of Nice on the French Riviera.
From to , he most frequently painted female nudes in carefully staged settings within his studio, making use of warm lighting and patterned backgrounds.
He also worked extensively in printmaking during these years. The first scholarly book about Matisse was published in , marking his importance in the history of modern art as it was still taking place. In his later career, Matisse received several major commissions, such as a mural for the art gallery of collector Dr. He also drew book illustrations for a series of limited-edition poetry collections.
After surgery in , Matisse was often bedridden; however, he continued to work from a bed in his studio. When necessary, he would draw with a pencil or charcoal attached to the end of a long pole that enabled him to reach the paper or canvas.
His late work was just as experimental and vibrant as his earlier artistic breakthroughs had been. It included his book Jazz , which placed his own thoughts on life and art side by side with lively images of colored paper cutouts. This project led him to devise works that were cutouts on their own, most notably several series of expressively shaped human figures cut from bright blue paper and pasted to wall-size background sheets such as Swimming Pool , Matisse died on November 3, , at the age of 84, in Nice.
He was buried in nearby Cimiez.
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