Sunday, October 19, 2008

Paraphrasing

4. Matisse is the best painter ever at putting the viewer at the scene. He's the most realistic of all modern artists, if you admit the feel of the breeze as necessary to a landscape and the smell of oranges as essential to a still life. "The Casbah Gate" depicts the well-known gateway Bab el Aassa, which pierces the southern wall of the city near the sultan's palace. With scrubby coats of ivory, aqua, blue, and rose delicately fenced by the liveliest gray outline in art history, Matisse gets the essence of a Tangier afternoon, including the subtle presence of the bowaab, the sentry who sits and surveys those who pass through the gate.
From Peter Plagens, "Bright Lights." Newsweek (26 March 1990): 50.

Paraphrased:

Casbah Gate
Picture from http://www.allposters.com

One of the best contemporary realistic painters would be Matisse, who was able to set the viewers on real scene as much as they could feel the surrounded component as in real. One of his famous paint is “The Casbah Gate” which illustrates a barbican or a tollgate of the Casbah, or Kasbah city. The name of the gate in his painting is Bab el Jadid, which was connection between south side of Kasbah to the king palace. Matisse used different color to illustrate the paint” The Casbah Gate” very well such as torques, aqua blue, dye red, and combination of green and gray. Henri Matisse illustrated Tangier circumstances with delicately, as he drew the porter at gate who count or analyzed the commuters.

1 comment:

Vivienne Jones said...

Wow, that's a beautiful painting. It's such a good idea to find the actual painting and show it to us.