![]() ![]() If Matisse managed to find the perfect balance, it is because he had to put several means in place in the composition.įirst, he created a diagonal line starting from the legs of the figure on the left and continuing to the guitar, in which the colors of the dress and legs of the woman on the left are repeated. Henri Matisse, La Musique (1939), Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Buffalo (Etats-Unis) © Succession H. ![]() In addition, it was particularly difficult to balance the different shapes repeated in the painting, the vertical and horizontal lines, the curves, and the placement of colors. The painting depicts two seated women in complementary poses highlighting the painter's ability to orchestrate both highly ornamental motifs and vivid pigments, while managing to maintain balance and simplicity.Īpparently simple and synthetic, the realization of La Musique (1939) is in truth the result of a long creative process during which Henri Matisse kept producing intermediate stages before he managed to bind the composition and clarify the different geometric structures.Īll the complexity of the painting, he believed, lay in the difficulty of harmonizing the two main figures without their respective voluminous forms dominating the overall image. La Musique is an oil on canvas made by Henri Matisse in 1939 and housed at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo. ![]()
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