2 posts tagged “matisse”

   I have a fond memory of listening to John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" while driving through the cold night and feeling warm because of Trane's playing.  THE MATISSE CONNECTION--Did you know that Matisse made a book of art called Jazz?  This is one of the paintings from that collection.  It's called Icarus.                       

This new book inspired me to make some bedroom art today.
It is full of Matisse's pictures of his scissor masterpieces--tres magnifique!
The creation that I made was the silhouette of a ballerina
cut out of lovely soft pink paper from Hollander's in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 
The paper is laced with gold threads and I highlighted the silhouette
with poinsettia-shaped red tissue paper.

I liked one Matisse's quotes from page 107 of the book:
"Any artist who manages to produce necessarily attains the religious.
Thus I am conscious of assembling the materials, or working to try to
put them in some kind of order, but when the picture is done,
I have the feeling that I am not the one who painted it;  God is."

Here is the poem that accompanies the art:

The Ballerina

She dipped her hand in a chest of tutus
it turned pink.
that pleased her.
she fell full length into the chest of tutus.
she turned pink.
pink in voice and singing.
the ballerina.