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HENRI MATISSE
One of the foundational pillars of early modernism, Matisse’s monumental canvas ‘The Joy of Life’ contains within it the past, the present, and the future. The past, in its lush pastoral setting and compositional similarities to an Italian Renaissance print by the great Agostino Carracci and an earlier Flemish painting by Paolo Fiammingo. The present, in its spatial distortions, flattening of dimensions and cadmium colours that rejected the conservative malaise of the day, causing outrage and offence when it was shown at the Salon des Indépendants in 1906. Together with Picasso’s ‘Les Demoiselles D’Avignon’, it created a new language of European painting that came to define the art history of the 20th Century. And the future, for within the painting is the origins of another of Matisse’s masterpieces. In the centre, furthest from the viewer, is a group of dancers who, three years later, would take centre stage in Matisse’s most well-known work ‘The Dance’. Matisse hid one seminal work inside another, anticipating the direction that he and the European artistic canon would move.
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Tuukka Toivonen October 28, 2024
Contemporary society has invented a virtually infinite variety of beverages to help keep us hydrated and provide us with refreshment…
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Wednesday 29th October
As the Moon reaches its first half, it rises in Sagittarius before transitioning into Capricorn. However, a planetary trine forms between Mercury in Scorpio and Neptune in Pisces. Both being water signs, this overrules the Moon’s position in the zodiac and instead creates a morning favourable for tending to leafy greens. This alignment enhances sensitivity and intuition, inviting us to care for the garden — and ourselves — with gentle awareness and flow. The forces of Mercury and Neptune together deepen perception, helping us to sense the subtle communications of living things — the quiet language of moisture, sap, and breath that moves through the soil and our own inner life alike.
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