Matisse's drawing “Upside Down Face” first study and final completed work

 

In daily life, digital images found on the Internet are also works of art. 

One condition of a work of art is that it be an image that can be seen and enjoyed every day.

Matisse's drawings can be found on the same page in a mixture of varying degrees of finish. 

As I can easily tell which a better work is based on my taste, I have no inconvenience selecting interesting works among many images. 

 Criticism cannot begin without analyzing each item one by one.

In my previous blog (Illustration for Matisse's Mallarmé Poetry Collection, "Upside Down Faces''), I wrote about the drawing.

I recently found a drawing on Twitter that appears to be a study for this work.


In the image on the right, the realistic elements such as a beautiful model with thick hair are gone, and the drawing stands on its own, with the line structure taking center stage.

If I create a model, I can further confirm the source of the artistic effect.

It seems like both can be reproduced using 12 types of circles of different sizes, so I'll try making an arc model. .

 

Matisse "Upside-downface" study

Matisse "Up-side down face"

The arcs of the same circle (bright blue) which form the outline of the face, neck, and nose in the first drawing is reduced only on the left chin and the outside of the hair in the second drawing.

The lines that depict the face are the same to the curves of the hair.

As you start drawing and the pen gradually advances, the curve becomes simpler.

 

When you look at the model in this way, you can see that body shape is going through the same process as the blog ``Pink Nude'' that I wrote about earlier, starting with a sketch and creating a work that has an independent form.


Matisse "Pink nude "and study

This is a famous work in which an assistant took a photograph of painting at the end of each day and erase the image for the next day.

The paintings of each process remain as photos.

Matisse "Pink nude" study  arc-circle model


Matisse "Pink nude" arc-circle model

Matisse didn't consciously try to create a picture using just limited circles from the beginning. 

Every painter with artistic sense tends to simplify lines.

People draw simplified shape as they view things as simplified forms.

However, when they learn how to draw plaster drawings for art school,

children's natural artistic talent becomes photographic realism.


 


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