Matisse in Morocco. The Journey of Light and Color: Two Winters That Changed Art
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Matisse in Morocco. The Journey of Light and Color: Two Winters That Changed Art
29.99 €
A lonely figure on the deck of a ship sailing to Tangier. Henri Matisse leaves Paris...
While the world was fascinated by Picasso's Cubism and his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), Matisse, a recent rebel and leader of the Fauves, found himself in creative isolation. He needed to escape, and he chose North Africa, Tangier.
We will see Morocco through Matisse's eyes: how light floods the terraces, how shadows fall on the ancient walls of the kasbah, how an ordinary girl, Zora, becomes a muse whose image the artist will cherish for decades. These two winters Matisse spent in Tangier will be a turning point in his life.
Matisse once couldn't even dream of: thousands of viewers around the world, from Paris to Moscow, will come to see his works. Jeff Koehler talks about creative crisis and rebirth, the search for inspiration, and the price of genius. This is a story about how true fame comes not to those who avoid failure, but to those who, even in loneliness and misunderstanding, continue to work without giving up.
The Moroccan period can safely be called Matisse's creative rebirth. Ivan Morozov, whose money brought Matisse to Tangier, acquired the best works from this period. Decades ahead of Europe, Russian collectors Shchukin and Morozov acquired about 40 of the artist's works, which today are the gems of the Pushkin Museum.
While the world was fascinated by Picasso's Cubism and his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), Matisse, a recent rebel and leader of the Fauves, found himself in creative isolation. He needed to escape, and he chose North Africa, Tangier.
We will see Morocco through Matisse's eyes: how light floods the terraces, how shadows fall on the ancient walls of the kasbah, how an ordinary girl, Zora, becomes a muse whose image the artist will cherish for decades. These two winters Matisse spent in Tangier will be a turning point in his life.
Matisse once couldn't even dream of: thousands of viewers around the world, from Paris to Moscow, will come to see his works. Jeff Koehler talks about creative crisis and rebirth, the search for inspiration, and the price of genius. This is a story about how true fame comes not to those who avoid failure, but to those who, even in loneliness and misunderstanding, continue to work without giving up.
The Moroccan period can safely be called Matisse's creative rebirth. Ivan Morozov, whose money brought Matisse to Tangier, acquired the best works from this period. Decades ahead of Europe, Russian collectors Shchukin and Morozov acquired about 40 of the artist's works, which today are the gems of the Pushkin Museum.
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