L'Atelier Rouge [SEP] creator
L'Atelier Rouge
L'Atelier Rouge, also known as The Red Studio, is a painting by Henri Matisse from 1911, in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
In 2004, "L'Atelier Rouge" came in at No. 5 in a poll of 500 art experts voting for the most influential of all works of modern art, along with works by Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol.
Formal Analysis.
This work depicts Matisse's "atelier" (studio) that he
interests. In "L'Atelier Rouge", the expressive use of color and lack of focal point work together to create harmony and balance. Even Fauvism, a style which Matisse himself developed with other artists in Paris, leaves its mark on the work in the use of bold color and disdain for realistic, representational painting.
Matisse also made several significant trips just prior to the creation of "L'Atelier Rouge". He visited an Islamic exhibition in Munich; the Moorish cities of Seville, Córdoba, and Granada in Spain;