An exhibition centered on Henri Matisse’s painting “The Red Studio” immerses a viewer in the marvels of an artistic revolution that resonates to this day.
Henri Matisse’s large painting “The Red Studio” is so familiar an icon of modern art that you may wonder what remains to be said—or even noticed—about it. Quite a lot, as a jewel box of a show at the Museum of Modern Art proves. The exhibition surrounds the eponymous rendering of the artist’s studio with most of the eleven earlier works of his that, in freehand copy, pepper the painting’s uniform ground of potent Venetian red.
There’s no possibility of entering the portrayed corner space, even by way of imagination. Only certain subtle contrasts of warm and cool hues, pushing and pulling at a viewer’s gaze, hint at anything like pictorial depth. Not for Matisse the retention of visually advancing and receding forms, as in the contemporaneous Cubism of his towering frenemy Picasso.
Shchukin’s lavish patronage of Matisse, which began in 1906, relieved the artist and his family from years of penury. It enabled a move to a comfortable home in Issy-les-Moulineaux, four miles outside Paris, and the construction there, in 1909, of the spacious studio that became the site and ofttimes subject of nearly all of Matisse’s works until he decamped to Nice, in 1917.
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