{"id":1033,"date":"2013-03-20T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2013-11-12T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T00:21:31","slug":"the-composition-of-the-matisse-painting-of-the-dance-subconsciously-influenced-my-blue-iris-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/the-composition-of-the-matisse-painting-of-the-dance-subconsciously-influenced-my-blue-iris-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Composition of the Matisse Painting of The Dance Influenced my Blue Iris Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Studying Art History seeps into your memory. Countless visits to the many museums and galleries that New York City has to offer has crept into my subconscious. This lifelong study has taken me through so many happy surprises as well as quite a number of dead ends.<\/p>\n

Often Artists are asked who their influences have been for their Art style. Trust me,\u00a0 never would I have answered Matisse. I\u2019ve never appreciated his sketchy use of paint, his lack of detail and apparent lack of a \u201cfinished\u201d quality to his work.<\/p>\n

And then, when I least expected it, I reimagined Matisse\u2019s iconic painting, \u201cThe Dance\u201d.\u00a0 Using flowers from my own garden, I picked up the exuberant rhythm that makes his work such a delight. This work is so light, buoyant and a wonderful interpretation of what spring means to me.<\/p>\n

As I was creating the composition of Irises I remember somewhere, behind my eyes, trying to make the circular floating connections of the frilly irises that was suspended somewhere in my memory. I have stood so often in front of the Matisse painting at the Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, loving the composition while not liking the paint quality. I\u2019ve returned so often to view that painting in the original hoping to find what I missed.<\/p>\n

I absorbed his painting just by being there and looking. And looking again. And again…\"Mary<\/p>\n

“…man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots,
\nwhose flower and fruitage is the world…”<\/i>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Mary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Studying Art History seeps into your memory. Countless visits to the many museums and galleries that New York City has to offer has crept into my subconscious. 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