When Inspirations Hits
Over the course of the ‘Matisse Drawing Life’ exhibition, The Drawing Room has been a space for observation, contemplation and interpretation. The three thematic displays of The Drawing Room have been informed by…
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Tuesday 28 February 2012
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Tuesday 21 February 2012
Couriers and Condition Reports: Matisse comes to Brisbane
For an exhibition like ‘Matisse: Drawing Life’ our practical input began once the crates were ready to be relieved of their precious cargo (aside from all the months of planning of course). Most…
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Thursday 19 January 2012
Rare book or time machine?
It is a portfolio of drawings consisting of 158 plates produced in lithography and presented on single loose leaf pages. Comprising 17 themes and variations of each subject, the drawings executed over a…
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Wednesday 28 December 2011
Behind the scenes: Matisse ‘The Drawing Room’ 2011
The space is broken into series of staged ‘thematic’ tableaux whose content has been drawn from the life and times of Matisse. From Moroccan patterned screens and fabrics to authentic antique French provincial…
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Friday 16 December 2011
Cuzin on Matisse
The first piece, Bleu sans l’exposition, which translates as ‘blue without an exhibition’, dominates GOMA’s entrance foyer. What strikes us initially as a rhythmic arrangement of white rectangles on a ‘Matissian’ blue ground…
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Monday 12 December 2011
The book as art
The particularly twentieth—century phenomenon of high—end book production by publishers such as Ambroise Vollard, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Albert Skira and Tériade (Stratis Eleftheriades) is broadly known as the livre d’artiste (Artist’s book). Picasso, Matisse,…
