Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Art Print boats

Woman Beside the Water ☱ Matisse ☱ Art Print boatsLa Japonaise: Woman Beside the Water (1905) by Henri Matisse was created in Collioure, a small Mediterranean fishing port near the border with Spain. Matisse began to explore what he later described as "construction by means of color" in his paintings while in Collioure. It depicts a woman in a kimono reading a book next to the water, created only with brushstrokes of color against a white canvas background and no definitive shapes or outlines. The

where he had gone to escape the materialism of European society

about four miles from the center of Paris

some fantastic

The fight between man and beast

She gazes over a landscape of lush jungle foliage and lotus flowers

with the ever-changing weather conditions playing a central role

and a snake

which either no longer exists

It depicts a man in red robes walking alone towards a megalithic tomb

The Sea of Ice (1824

here the left panel portrays The Garden of Eden and the right panel the Last Judgment

Koheiji was murdered in a swamp by his wife's lover