The Letter, Oil Painting Inspired by Matisse, by k Madison Moore

The Letter

Inspired by Henri Matisse

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I so wish the colors showed better on the net!

I hear so many times how much better my paintings are in hand.

Then every monitor is different as well. Not to mention that I wish

I had more talent in the area of photography.

The colors a hues of pinks, coral, shrimp, peach, lavenders

are really so pretty together in this painting. You know how much

I love Matisse for his mixing of colors and patterns.

The nude is in basic form of one of Henri's nudes but with a 

totally different face. The window, curtains and scene is 

is my take on elements from his paintings as well as

the table, chair and still life. This is a great combination

of my impression of Matisse.

Is she sleeping or is she in deep thought?

humm......wonder what's in that letter?

What do you think?

Enjoy!

Henri Matisse
Birth Year :	1869
Death Year :	1954
Country :	France

Henri Matisse was born in Le Chateau, in the north of France. His plans to enter the law profession were interrupted by an attack of appendicitis. During a long convalescence, Matisse 's attempts at painting encouraged him to study art. He was twenty-two when he arrived in Paris to study with Bourgereau at the Beaux-Arts and to work also with Gustave Moreau. Matisse 's early paintings were dark, naturalistic works, but by 1896 he had taken up Neo-Impressionist techniques, working in light color and short strokes. By 1905, he was the leader of the Fauve movement, and by 1908 he had embarked on the course that was to influence all contemporary painting since that date: an exploration of the possibilities of painting as a decorative and sensuous art.

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Illusions of Picasso, Inspired by Pablo Picasso by k Madison Moore

Illusions of Picasso

Inspired by Pablo Picasso

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Goodness, my eyes are crossed from this one!

I love illusions but they are really tough to paint.

Keeping the lines separated is a chore.

However I am always challenging myself so I really

did have a lot of fun painting this one.

Can you image staring at that wall all day!!

This is a short post as I am burnt from

working long days completing all my commissions.

Have a great sunday everyone.

Enjoy!

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Peter Max Inspired Painting, I Love You Peter by k Madison Moore

Peter's  Piano II

A Homage to Peter Max

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12 x 16 Oil Painting on Canvas

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I did a Homage to Pater Max in the beginning of the year titled

Peter's Piano. I have to say that it is one of the most popular paintings for

this year. I did several similar, but not the same commissions, including a

very large format commission for a friend of Peter Max's, which just

thrilled me. I Check out his site www.themaxcollector.com

I thought it would be great to do another now as Peter just released

 his new isong

Check it our at the links below

You have to love him. He has works all over the place and knows

 so many people and other artists. What a legacy!...and such a nice guy too! I

have listed some facts about him here that I thought were interesting.

 Always learning something new! Love it!

This painting is 12 x 16, a really nice size and different from the first

 Peter's Piano at 11 x 14.

It is my impression of combined elements from five of Peter's

 paintings including his self portrait. The flooring is from another as well as

the Baldwin Piano that he painted. What great colors!

Custom Floater Frames are available upon request.

This would make a great gift for a Peter Max Lover.

Thanks Peter. Love ya!

Enjoy!

NPR Limited Edition Peter Max iSongBook

In honor of NPR's 40th anniversary, the iconic pop artist 

Peter Max

 has graciously designed this limited edition 

Tivoli iSongBook for NPR.

Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein, October 19, 1937) is a

 German-born Jewish American artist best known for his “Cosmic 60s”

 art style, as it came to be known in the 1960's . At first, works in this

style appeared on posters and were seen on the walls of college dorms

all across America. Max then became fascinated with new printing techniques

 that allowed for four-color reproduction on product merchandise.

In 1970, many of Max's products and posters were featured in the exhibition

 "The World of Peter Max" which opened at the M.H. de Young

Memorial Museum in San Francisco. The US Postal Service commissioned

Max to create the first 10¢ postage stamp to commemorate the  Expo

74World's Fair in Spokane, Washington. July 4, 1976, Max began his

 Statue of Liberty series leading to his efforts with  Chrysler CEO Lee

Iacocca  to help spearhead the restoration of the statue.

Official artist for many major events including Grammy Awards, Rock

 and Roll Hall of Fame, The Super bowl and others.

He also hosted the Xpress Peter Max Coloring Contest in the St. Petersburg

 Times in November 2005. The contest, located in St. Petersburg, Florida,

was a contest for children to color in a sketch by Max. Of 800 entries, 90

were sent to Max, who chose a grand prize winner, a runner-up and 10

honorable mentions

Max's art work was a part of the Psychedelic movement in graphic design.

His work was much imitated in commercial illustration in the late 1960s

and early 1970s.

His artwork is currently on the walls of CBS's The Early Show where

his newly created installation of 44 Obamas, commemorating the 44th

President of The United States was debuted.

Max owns a collection of 36 Chevrolet Corvettes, dating from 1953 to

1988, one for each year. The collection has been horribly neglected.

Peter Max is an environmentalist and defender of human and animal rights.

One of Continental Airlines" Boeing 777-200ER aircraft

(registered N77014) sported a special livery designed by Max.

The livery was removed in the winter of 2007–2008.

Peter Max currently lives in New York Citywith his wife, Mary Max.

Pater Max Quotes

Quote:I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself.

 I'm just the middleman.

Peter Max

Quote: There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous

 highlight for America.

Peter Max

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Inspired by Matisse, Her Ship in The Night by k Madison Moore

Her Ship in The Night

Inspired by Matisse

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The fun part of working with Matisse

is mixing patterns. He used so many

patterns and brilliant colors in one painting.

It can  get confusing at times.

I have used this Matisse model a few times.

I think it is one of my favorites because of

it's simplicity.

The table is set and the wine is poured

so I wonder who is on that ship?

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Matisse and His Models

The French expression for thunderbolt—coup de foudre—means “love at first sight,” with all the undertones of violence and risk that were an intrinsic part of Matisse’s passion for painting. Anxiety and dread hung over his studio sessions. Toward the end of his life he told an interviewer that each canvas began as a flirtation and ended up as a rape. He said it was himself, not his subject—or rather it was the feelings his subject aroused in him—that had to be raped. The subject itself could be fruit, flowers or a fabric screen, as often as a human sitter. The young women who posed for him all learned to live and work in the atmosphere of almost unbearable tension generated by Matisse’s effort to express his emotions on canvas—an effort that drained all his strength.

Matisse himself knew perfectly well that the erotic charge in his work came from a passionate desire that overrode straightforward lust. It was painting itself that seduced him over and over again with each fresh canvas. In old age when he was too weak to stand all day at the easel, he feared going blind as well “because of having flirted for too long . . . with these enchanted colors.”

All his life Matisse drove his models as well as himself to the limits of endurance. He insisted it was better to risk ruining a painting than be satisfied with a surface likeness. It’s always necessary to force your whole being beyond this stage, he told his daughter, Marguerite, because it’s only then that you start to make discoveries, and tear yourself apart in the process.

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Matisse Inspired Painting, Waiting for Her Ship to Come In

Waiting for Her Ship to Come In

Inspired by Matisse

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I always love my inspirations from Matisse as I get to use and mix patterns and many colors and somehow they always come out great!  She is just napping there by the window in the summer breeze

with a nice glass of red.....while "Waiting for Her Ship to Come In". Hummmm...wonder who's on the ship?

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Monet's Tranquility, Inspired by Monet by k Madison Moore

Monet's Tranquility

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I went for a whole new perspective with this Art within Art Painting. Instead of a close up, or a section of a room I wanted to do the entire room. Making the windows really high makes the room look so grand which then of course I had to add the baby grand piano. A piano painted just for Monet.

I especially like the way the crystal chandelier brightens the room and adds a jeweled affect to the composition.

Imagine a pianist sitting in this grand room overlooking playing beautiful music overlooking Monet's

Japanese foot bridge over the water lily pond in his garden of Giverny.

Monet painted several paintings of this bridge on his property.

Enjoy!

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Claude Monet  born Oscar Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926), was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plien-air landscape painting.

When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the old masters. Having brought his paints and other tools with him, he would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw Monet was in Paris for several years and met other young painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists; among them was Edouard Manet.

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The Answer, Inspired by de Lempicka by k Madison Moore

The Answer

Inspired by de Lempicka

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I thought I would have some fun and do another Big Hat

Painting. I love these and they have been popular.

This one is really more all of my own and the only elements.

Tamara's gentleman  was perfect for the story.

I love the way he is looking at her while she is

intently thinking weather to accept that ring or not.

Do you think she will?

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Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 - March 18, 1980), born Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter.

Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was a Polish lawyer, her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersberg, Russia. 

Tamara

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The Answer, Inspired by de Lempicka by k Madison Moore

The Answer

Inspired by de Lempicka

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I thought I would have some fun and do another Big Hat

Painting. I love these and they have been popular.

This one is really more all of my own and the only element

I used here was the man in the mirror that is my take

on her gentleman. He was perfect for the story.

I love the way he is looking at her while she is

intently thinking weather to accept that ring or not.

Do you think se will?

Enjoy!

Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898 - March 18, 1980), born Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter.

Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was a Polish lawyer, her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. Maria was the middle child with two siblings. She attended boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland, and spent the winter of 1911 with her grandmother in Italy and the French Riviera, where she was treated to her first taste of the Great Masters of Italian painting. In 1912, her parents divorced and Maria went to live with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in St. Petersberg, Russia. 

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Reflections of Rivera, by k Madison Moore, Inspired by Diego Rivera

Reflections of Rivera

Inspired by Diego Rivera

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I found a new painting by Diego Rivera that

included a similar beautiful woman to the one I have

painted here. I changed the face totally. I loved her gown

and her holding the mirror so that is close to his.

Diego is well know for painting Calla Lillie's so I 

thought that would be a nice touch.

I actually dreamed about the background for this

I like the dark dreaminess of the room and the birds

and vines lingering above. I think the chair took longer

to paint than anything else with the candy cane cording

and the fringe and tassels. So much fun!

Enjoy Reflections of Rivera.

Diego Rivera and his love Frieda Kahlo

Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1886. He began to study painting at an early age and in 1907 moved to Europe. Spending most of the next fourteen years in Paris, Rivera encountered the works of such great masters as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse.

Considered the greatest Mexican painter of the twentieth century, Diego Rivera had a profound effect on the international art world. Among his many contributions, Rivera is credited with the reintroduction of fresco painting into modern art and architecture. His radical political views and tempestuous romance with the painter Frieda Kahlo were then, and remain today, a source of public intrigue. In a series of visits to America, from 1930 to 1940, Rivera brought his unique vision to public spaces and galleries, enlightening and inspiring artists and laymen alike.

Rivera remained a central force in the development of a national art in Mexico throughout his life. In 1957, at the age of seventy, Rivera died in Mexico City. Perhaps one his greatest legacies, however, was his impact on America’s conception of public art.

“An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn’t a great artist.” - Diego Rivera

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Inspired by Matisse, Henri's Harem by k Madison Moore

Henri's Harem

Painting Inspired by Henri Matisse

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I was reading about Matisse's Models and came up with this

idea. In this painting I did my take on many of his models.

I made many color and patten changes and changed the facial

features. The flowers, vases, checkerboard, table, furniture 

and wall patterns are inspired by different Matisse paintings.

I have such an attraction for Matisse. He was so passionate about

his work. He used such bold colors and mixed patterns with

 patterns and painted table tops facing the viewer as it was more

 important for the elements on the table to be painted.

He had a passion for painting woman in sheer tops and harem

pants. Maybe he wished for a harem...or maybe he had one!

He was hard to model for and went through many,

many models. See a great article I have included below

from the Smithsonian about Matisse and his models.

I thought it would be great to give Henri his Harem lying 

around sipping wine while Henri peeps in.

Enjoy " Henri's Harem"

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 Matisse and His Models

The French expression for thunderbolt—coup de foudre—means “love at first sight,” with all the undertones of violence and risk that were an intrinsic part of Matisse’s passion for painting. Anxiety and  dread hung over his studio sessions. Toward the end of his life he told an interviewer that each canvas began as a flirtation and ended up as a rape. He said it was himself, not his subject—or rather it was the feelings his subject aroused in him—that had to be raped. The subject itself could be fruit, flowers or a fabric screen, as often as a human sitter. The young women who posed for him all learned to live and work in the atmosphere of almost unbearable tension generated by Matisse’s effort to express his emotions on canvas—an effort that drained all his strength.

Matisse’s reputation as a Modernist leader was built on this sort of shock. So his followers saw it as an unforgivable betrayal when he moved from Paris to Nice ten years later and started painting good-looking young women in transparent tops and harem pants lounging on cushioned divans.

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Inspired by Gustave Klimt, A Kiss for The Tree of Life by k Madison Moore

A Kiss for The Tree of Life

Inspired by Gustav Klimt

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I love to paint with Klimt but when I do the paintings

are endless and take so much time. He used so many

symbols and swirls and blocks of color. It takes many

sittings with drying in between and layers of glazes

to complete on of these paintings.

The Tree of Life was a very significant  painting of

his as well as The Kiss that I though it would be great

to combine my impression of his tow works into one

painting.

I guess they will cuddle under that fluffy cover after

that kiss!

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 Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter known for painted erotic and romantic images in most of his paintings. However, he also did other paintings of landscapes and nature. Gustav Klimt’s tree of life depicts this same tree, with significant features on it. It connects the three worlds surrounding man; those are The Underworld, The Earth, and The Heavens. Its roots are deep into the earth, probably signifying that for life to be sustained, Mother Nature must be involved. The roots then come up to the aboveground and meet into forming the tree’s trunk that is on the earth. The tree’s branches extent to the heavens. In the history of man, The Tree of Life has had a significant meaning. It has been linked with several religious practices and traditions, depicting the source and sustenance of man’s life.
The klimt tree of life has been around forever it’s a spiritual tradition symbolizing life with its roots embedded in the earth and its top going to heaven. The tree is a symbol to many faiths of wisdom, rebirth, love, strength, friendship, redemption, and encouragement. Many artists will represent the tree of life differently. Some will just show the tree alone, some may show the tree with objects in it, yet others may show a tree with a background. All these objects in and around the tree represent many different things to many different people and artists. So for some it is not only a tree of life but how to live life.
Klimt Gustav painted Tree of Life, during his Golden Era as seen by the extensive use of the golden color on this piece. It has had thousands of different interpretations, but all of them still tend to agree that this tree has all to do with man’s living.
There is also the belief that the Tree of Life represents distinct virtues as well as qualities that an individual can possess. This includes wisdom, strength and even beauty. The religious aspect of the tree is that it represents the Creator and the tree can be applied to symbolize the creation of humans. It also represents a growth of a human. A person can have roots to their home after which will branch out to do other things with their life and new people. The trunk, in this analogy, represents the mind as well as the body with the individual, which connects almost everything together.

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