Audio Tour Stop 13

Open Window, Collioure, Henri Matisse

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开着的窗户

马蒂斯

如今看亨利·马蒂斯的这幅《开着的窗户》，可能看到的是温柔和抒情，但是在最初，这幅画因其厚重的笔触和强烈的色彩，被认为充满野性画风。这幅画作规格虽小却极具冲击力，是早期现代主义风格的代表作，被誉为野兽派最重要的作品之一。野兽派艺术家热衷于将色彩和质感从对自然形态的刻板写实中解放出来。这幅画作是马蒂斯野兽派艺术风格的开篇之作。

Open Window, Collioure (Chinese)
A French window with its sill lined with flowerpots opens into a view of boats floating in a body of water in this loosely painted, vibrantly colored, stylized, vertical painting. The doors open inward, and they are painted with coral orange and cranberry red. The wall behind the door to the left is peacock blue and the wall to our right is fuchsia pink, and those colors are reflected in the opposite windows of the doors. Three flowerpots in crimson red, marmalade orange, or royal blue sit on the windowsill in front of us. Foliage in the pots is painted with short strokes of cardinal red and turquoise blue. Over the window, a two-paned transom window pierces a forest-green wall. The view through the panes has a band of salmon pink across the top and dabs of celery green and banana yellow below. The dabs and dashes of pine and lime green continue down the sides of the window and across the sill, suggesting vines growing up around the opening. A band of ultramarine blue beyond the flowerpots could be a balcony. Several rust-orange masts of ships with hulls painted with swipes of indigo blue, flamingo pink, forest green, and marigold orange float in the water beyond. The water is painted with parallel strokes in pale pink and butter yellow. The sky above is painted with thick, wavy lines of steel blue, periwinkle purple, and seafoam green. The artist signed the work in red paint in the lower right, “Henri Matisse.”
Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, 1998.74.7

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