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Modernist manifestos tend to be full of radical rhetoric, but Henri Matisse's Notes of a Painter is a precise, sensitive analysis of his own work in which he says that what matters to him is expression. He doesn't mean the emotion communicated by a passionate face, but that conveyed by the whole painting: "The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive: the place occupied by the figures, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything has its share.
The Piano Lesson, a 1916 canvas 8ft tall and almost 7ft wide that is one of the glories of Tate Modern's Matisse Picasso show, is a textbook example of what Matisse is talking about. In it Matisse's son Pierre sits practising at the family piano in the home Matisse bought in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux. Pierre is made to look younger than he actually was - he was 16 -as part of an ensemble of effects designed to heighten and distil feeling. The placing of the figures -one of them hallucinatory - is full of tension. Pierre seems oppressed by the scale of this big painting. Above him, a woman supervises his practice from a stool. Her blank, watching face is sinister, even when we realize that this is merely one of Matisse's paintings, his 1913-14 work Woman on a High Stool. Pierre is pinned between this phantom observer and the sharp spear of the metronome, whose violent point is repeated in the triangular fall of shadow that obliterates a quarter of his face.
Greyness dominates and oppresses the picture, and it perversely demolishes pictorial logic, as a depressive mood might distort one's sense of reality. Thus the same grey colors the view outside the window, the walls and floor of the living room, and even the torso of the woman on the stool - to the extent that it takes time to feel your way to seeing the room as a room, the window as a window. Only Pierre himself is a fleshy, human survivor of this miasma, along with tokens of life: the bronze nude in the corner, the candle on the pink piano top and, like a torch beam, the ray of green garden that cuts desperately across the grey world.
Everything about The Piano Lesson exemplifies Matisse's own description of his art perfectly, except that the mood it creates is opposite to the ones we associate with him • the unbridled joy of his paintings, the bliss of his paper cutouts. The colliding, fragile, not-quite-touching areas of green and pink in The Piano Lesson, the glimpses of Matisse's sensuous world, are the most painful of all - reminders of life like the stirrings of spring in TS Eliot's The Waste Land.
7. The passage suggests which of the following about Braque's cubism.
A. It lends itself more readily to systematic analysis than does Matisse's work.
B. It is more radical in terms of form than most paintings by Matisse.
C. It was influenced by Matisse's idiosyncratic and intuitive approach.
D. It cannot be confined to any single source or meaning.
E. It is overly dependent on traditional signs and symbols.
答案7.A
Consider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.
8.The passage identifies which of the following as a reason that Matisse's art can confound analysis.
A. Traditional analytical tools are not well suited to Matisse's art.
B. Matisse's art is marked by a freedom from systematic influence.
C. The norms that Picasso and Braque rejected were not ones that Matisse rejected.
答案8.AB
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