Muscatine Art Center`s collections were significantly enriched by a gift of twenty-seven works of art by Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Chagall, Renoir, Signac, Duffy, Laurencin and other European artists. The collection was a gift in 1992 from the estate of Mary Musser Gilmore in honor of her parents, Richard Drew Musser and Sarah Walker Musser.
This spring, the Muscatine Art Center welcomes Carol Ehlers, art history speaker, to present a lecture featuring Henri Matisse's Later Life: The Cutouts. View the artwork of Matisse that is part of the Muscatine Art Center collection. The lecture will be held on May 21, 2015, the third Thursday of the month and will be begin promptly at 5:30 pm. These lectures are FREE and open to the public.
Third Thursday, May 21, 2015 -- Henri Matisse's Later Life: The Cutouts
Henri Matisse recognized at one of the great artist of the twentieth century due to personal goal of the perfect synthesis of line and color. The program will include an introduction of the recognized works during his life time as he moves from the styles and subjects of pointillism, fauvism, odalisque, decorative arts, dance, and music. Later in life, Matisse relates how fauvism affected his cutouts.
Matisse did not originally see the cutouts as a medium for artwork but rather the cutouts were used as a process toward the final works. The talk includes information about: Dance and Music done for Russian collector Sergey Ivanovich Shchukin; the Dance done for Alfred Barnes; the Large Reclining Nude done for the Cone Sisters; and stage curtain design for Rouge et Noirs
In 1937, Tériade published Verve (magazine) and Matisse would use cut outs for covers. It would be Tériade, who encourages and supports Matisse to publish Jazz. The original edition of September 30, 1947 consisted of twenty plates. View the images and learn about the technique used to produce the work.
Shortly after Jazz, Matisse agrees to commission to design Chapel of Rosary in Vence, France. Learn about the four years, 1947-1951, of concentrated work to make his dream become reality and culmination of four years of concentrated work on stain glass, murals, and vestments. Today the chapel survives and represents a point that Matisse sees cut-outs as a medium for his artwork.
1952 was one of the most productive years for Matisse. The Sorrow of the King, Blue Nudes, Snail, Swimming Pool, Sheaf and other large scale cutouts will be presented with background information.
For Matisse's last fourteen years of his life or his second life, he found renewed and unexpected energies creating breathtaking new work called the cutouts. Matisse dies on November 3, 1954
EVENT DETAILS:
What: "Henri Matisse's Later Life: The Cutouts
Who: Carol Ehlers
When: Third Thursday, May 21, 2014
Time: 5:30 PM
Where: The Muscatine Art Center`s Music Room
Admission to these programs is FREE.
Please contact Melanie Alexander, Director, with any questions or concerns at
563-263-8282 or by email at malexander@muscatineiowa.gov.
The Muscatine Art Center is located at 1314 Mulberry Avenue in Muscatine, Iowa. Hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Thursday evenings until 7:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. Donations are appreciated. Go to www.muscatineartcenter.org for more information about programs and events and to download a class brochure.
