Airborne abstraction: embracing indeterminacy and chance, Jackie Matisse sends her abstract forms aloft on kites. Painted kite tails, assemblages, photo and film documentation, and an electronic simulacrum of kite-flying were recently on view in a New York gallery.

From: Art in America | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Johnston, Jill | Copyright information

On her way by taxi to the airport in New York in 1962, Jackie Matisse saw an object in the sky that changed her life--a kite flying over Harlem. She says she "saw a line drawn in the sky," inspiring her to use the heights as a canvas. She had not made art before, and she was 32, married, with three children. Her third had been born that very year and she would have one more. The escape idea in kite flying seems inviting when linked to a story of domestic confinement, and Matisse ma...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

The mastery of Matisse.(Bibliography)
Art in America ; Matisse, by Pierre Schneider, new edition, New York, Rizzoli, 2002; 752 pages, $100. The Joy of Life: The Idyllic in French Art, circa 1900, by Margaret Werth, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2002; 330 pages, $60. Matisse Picasso, by Elizabeth Cowling, John Golding, Anne
ART EXHIBIT DISPLAYS INFLUENCE OF MATISSE
The Boston Globe ; AFTER MATISSE - At the Worcester Art Museum, through February 7. Organized by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York. The pattern painters, the color field folks, the resolutely two-dimensional, integrity-of-the-picture-plane artists: They all owe something to Matisse, who shaped so much 20th
Guernica: the Matisse version Matisse's great-granddaughter Sophie has repainted Picasso's monochrome masterpiece in cheery colours. She tells Helena de Bertodano why
The Sunday Telegraph London ; In Sophie Matisse's studio, there is a photograph of her great- grandfather, the artist Henri Matisse. His gaze is calm but intense and his mouth betrays a whisper of a smile. One cannot help but think he is quietly amused by the scene he surveys: a floor strewn with Sophie's studies of Pablo
Seeing it his way.(Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954)(Book review)
National Review ; Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour: 1909-1954, by Hilary Spurling (Knopf, 544 pp., $40) 'The creators of a new language, said Henri Matisse, are always fifty years ahead of their time. Matisse insisted on seeing the world on his own terms--and that choice, which he
Matisse as Magus.(Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954)(Book Review)
Art in America ; ... in two world wars, when members were often separated, without news, and frequently at risk. Intended for a general audience, the ... That is why Spurling's access is so exceptional and such good news. Her biography, according to the publisher, was not commissioned ...
Two for the road: the prolonged and productive rivalry between Matisse and Picasso fills a major chapter in the history of 20th-century modernism. As a dual exhibition arrives in New York, Matisse's biographer speculates on his perpetual runner-up status in the popular ranking of the two avant-garde titans.
Art in America ; The last great confrontation of their lifetime between Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso took place in 1945 on the walls of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Matisse was 75 years old, Picasso 64. I can just imagine the gallery with my pictures down one side and his on the other, Matisse wrote
Matisse: a symposium. (art critics examine the works of Henri Matisse)
Art in America ; ... reading, watching TV; am somewhat edgy, anticipating terrible news. Election returns. All of NYC holding its collective breath ... you answer yes to any of these inquiries, John Elderfield has news for you. He makes it clear from the start of his catalogue essay ...
Profile: Works of Matisse and Picasso shown side by side in new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
NPR Morning Edition ; ... person has the right to criticize me. It's Picasso.' For NPR News, I'm David D'Arcy in New York. EDWARDS: Nudes by both artists ... Picasso exhibits are at npr.org. This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Bob Edwards. Content and Programming copyright 2003 National ...
Unfolding Matisse: Henri Matisse's "working library" of textiles, packed away in trunks and closets since the artist's death in 1954, is now the focus of a revelatory exhibition of artworks and fabrics at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.(influences of recurring fabric motifs)(Critical Essay)
Art in America ; Animals, as Claude Levi-Strauss put it in his study of totemism, are good for thinking with. Likewise, Henri Matisse might have affirmed that textiles are good for painting with. Good for exhibiting paintings with as well, as attested by a fine and admirably concise exhibition with a rather
Top of the heap in so many ways; Few alleys and cramped quarters create unique issues for New York.(Statistical Data Included)
Waste News ; ... we get closer to the present, it's not as much of a model. How can it be an example for Phoenix?'' he said. ``It's an illusion that it's like everyone else. It's not.'' Contact Waste News editor Allan Gerlat at (330) 865-6167 or agerlat@crain.com