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Henri Matisse

Blue Still Life (Nature morte bleue), 1907

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This painting belongs to a remarkable group of still lifes made between 1906 and 1908 in which Matisse explores arabesques—designs of intertwined, flowing lines that function to move the viewer's eye around the canvas. Matisse had been studying the works of Cézanne, who had died in 1906, and Cézanne's influence can be seen in the tension here between two and three dimensions. To create the illusion of depth, Matisse constructs a series of horizontals and verticals that recede like a staircase.

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