DSDN171: Assignment 5

Matisse, Henri. La Raie Verte "The Green Line.". 1905.
Oil & tempera on canvas. Statens Musseum for Kunst, Copenhagen.

 Matise is considered to be one of the founders of fauvism, a movement  known for there the lyrical use of color, especially expressed well in his painting 'the green line.'The Green Line ' also known as ‘'Madam Matisse' is a famous portrait of Matisse's wife where he use colour to convey her personality and his feel for her .


The fauvist concern them with many similar theories as Wallis Kandinsky andy Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . They used colour subjectively rather than realistically. in this painting in particular, Matisse attempts to express varying emotions surrounding the shis wife)mainly through the colours used within the portrait. He uses many bright and bold colours, possibly representing the strong feelings towards his wife (warm colours representing love and passion);  in contrasr to the  yellow on her face may be portraying a harder, unemotional (and perhaps sickly) personal trait when contrasted with the warmer orange and pink.

Sonya Winner, After Matisse


(i thought this an interesting example of how Matisse colour
 palette impacter other artist maybe not for its deeper meaning in this case, but interesting non the less)

DSDN171: colour of the mind

"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul"

Kandinsky, Concerning the spiritual in Art, Munich, 1911

Circule and squares, Wassily Kandinsky

DSDN171: Assignment 4

“The evolution of

culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament

from objects of daily use.”
Adolf loos (1908,"Ornament and Crime”)

Adolf Loos opinion on the correlation of civilization of people and de-ornamenting of things is just a reflection of how ‘modernist”, even early modernist in the early 20^th century, thought design of utilities ought to evolve rather than a true reflection of how it did happen. It can even  be argued  that Adolf Loos was speaking from a peak of civilization, during the industrial revolution, yet the objects of daily use was so overly decorated at times that object became impracticable to use (see figure 1), proofing that his statement is rather what  he wish design would evolve to.  

figure1: 1906 Art Nouveau silver-plated claret jug
(http://www.tarabradford.com/2008/03/the-bliss-of-un.html)

Which in a sense did start happening from that point forward through modernist philosophy. Objects become less and less decorative and more form orientated from "arts and craft" to 'high modernism" (see figure 2-4). But this were also eventually a pose by post modernist which would culturally be even more evolved than their predecessors, post modern will again embrace eclecticism of the past and embrace ornament for ornament sake (see figure 5)

Figure2: Gustaf Stickley, arts and craft chair

Figure3: Marcel Breuer- Wassily Chair,1925

Figure3: The ant chair by Arne Jacobsen, 1952

Figure4: 9093 Graves Kettle