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Pink Nude or Large Reclining Nude by Henri Matisse, 1935, Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD)
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Most of Matisse's major works of 1935 and 1936 are nudes. In 1936 Lydia Delektorskaya, who also helped with paper cutouts, was the model for Pink Nude, a painting which for all its modesty of scale achieves a sense of the monumental. The woman's arms and legs are bent but still they are trimmed by the edge of the canvas. As in the Merion 'Dance', the viewer's imagination is urged beyond the spatial limits. The painter has come up to his model as if for a close-up, and the background is a mere setting, with no perspectival depths.
The background is no more than a pattern, and the nude a sketch of the human body. What gives the woman her considerable clarity of impact is the emphatic exaggeration of the limbs, the frontal angle of the head, and the suggestion of the two breasts. A balance has been struck between organic and geometric form, smooth and modelled surfaces, curved lines and straight, colours warm and cold, and it is a balance arresting in its simplicity. The paint has a dry, ...

10:07 AM - Apr 20, 2024

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