How to make a Matisse nude drawing

 

Among the nude drawings by Matisse that can be found through image search, I have found images with a high degree of perfection.

It turns out they were made to illustrate a collection of Mallarmé poems.

Let's create an arc circle model.

     Matisse [Odalisque] 1934

     Matisse [Odalisque] arc-circle model

It has the perfection like archaic idol sculpture.


         Matisse [Le Sonneur, plate eight from Poesies de Mallarme

arc-circle model

     Matisse [Le Pitre Châtié, plate four from Poesies de Mallarmé]


If one dares to look at it casually, it is a female body that cannot be described as beautiful.

If you look at it as a body, its outline is cut off.

Viewed as lines, it gives a sense of harmony and balance.

It's a quality that you'll understand once you get to the level where you can appreciate Cezanne's unpopular bathing paintings.


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