Confessions: Matisse

The my vocation to painting is in 1890 when after a medical operation I past some time in home of my oncle in Bohain, and there a fortunate meeting, because I known the director of a works of cloth, that was lover of painting, I followed him and I failed in love to painting; the my first painting is the Died nature with books(Fig.1), and I have signed it with my anagram M.H.;but then I worked in a laywer studio, but when it was possible I painted always, and after the boring work and for me useless, I gone soon to my room and I drown until later, and after I have decorated the ciling of home of my oncle, Emile Gerard. In 1892 I gone to studio of Gustave Moreau(1826-1898); but I could gain some money thank to copies of Poussin(1594-1665), Chardin(1699-1779) and other. I painted also in plain air, in conformity of French language, this is in open plac aout from studio, and the Guardin of pigs(Fig.2), is influenced directly from Corot(1796-1875). The painting The read(Fig.3) I have felt strong the influence of Corot, because the light and the color is again, as the Guardian, ocher, but the predominant note of these painting is the realism. The realism that has accompanied the lesson of impressionionism in the Port of La Palais(Fig.4), and this lesson of tecnique brushstroke continued also to The table to lunch(Fig.5), but I have exasperated this lesson to paesage of Corsica(Fig.6), and in Corsica I have tried the lesson of Impressionism because  I have seen the light and I felt very freedom from academical definition, hence I have tried every impression that I have had, in fact I was upset because there everyting shines, everything is color, everything is light. For my sculpture as the servant(Fig.8), I have took as model for the style from Rodin(Fig.9), although I have took from classic scuptures of Italy, where I have visited often. For the Madaleine(Fig.10),I have took from Impressionism brushstroke and I have translated it in sculture as made Medardo Rosso(1858-1928) in Italy, that has impressed to sculpture the tecnique of Impressionism. The gulf (Fig.11) I have felt the influence very strong of brushstroke of Pisarro(1830-1903)(Figs.12-14), I have took his correctness and coherence to shape lands and the figures. Instead to Luxury, calm and voluptuesness(Fig.15), I have took from Signac(1863-1935), his brushstroke has involved me and I have used his tecnique to my landascapes, this is the divion of colors in point of brush, and I have divided the colors through the short touches; in fact Signac bought this painting, that I have exposed in Salon de Indépendant in year 1905. After I have gone to Collioure, in far south of France. The woman with hat(Fig.19) is mine adesion to divisionism, this is the nect division of colors, pure color brushstroked on the canvas, without mixture, as it is solit on painting, it is a lesson of impressionism, that used pure colors, and I have took it both from the impressionist pianters and from the Signac. The joy of life(Fig.20) is the begin of Fauvisme, this is the fears whereby the abstact represenations, distant and distincted from academic representation, but although it is very against academic it took from the academical style, how? The pure color is from Signac, the divionism is same source, the line is different because the character have to be different, otherwise it be same academic work. The recumbent nude(Fig.21), I have followed my sculpture address, because the style is similar to The servant(Fig.8), but I have took also from medardo Rosso, in Italy and I have founded the sculpture fauvisme, the style I have took from my The joy of life(Fig.20), and I have translated in tridimension matter the figure of painting. It is basically athe against academicism that has fashined, but this with and concetion is begun fro Impressionism, we have alone followed this intention.

Alessandro Lusana

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