Sophie Matisse
Sophie Matisse ( b. 1965 in Boston ) is an American painter.
Life and work
Sophie Matisse is the daughter of the sculptor Paul Matisse, granddaughter of the art dealer Pierre Matisse and great-granddaughter of the French painter Henri Matisse. My step-grandfather was Marcel Duchamp, who had married her grandmother Alexina " Teeny " Sattler, divorced Matisse, in a second marriage.
1985 Sophie Matisse visited the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and from 1988 to 1990, the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris. In 1992 she married the French painter Alain Jacquet, who died in 2008. Their daughter Gaia was born in 1993.
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Matisse alienated classics of art by taking it retained the background of the works and the people aussparte. Examples are The Monna Lisa ( Be Back in 5 Minutes) after the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Las Meninas (2001) by Diego Velasquez ' Las Meninas and adaptations for works of Jan Vermeer, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. Nighthawks from 2001 based on the eponymous painting by Edward Hopper has the famous bar without people. Matisse also pays tribute to the work of her great-grandfather Henri Matisse tribute. In her painting The Goldfish (1998) there are no goldfish. In The Conversation (2001 ), only the light blue room with a single chair appears. In 2003, she made ready Final Guernica, a duplicate in an almost identical screen size of Pablo Picasso's monumental Guernica, which is however not limited to gray - blue-black like the original in Madrid, but in bright colors.
2005 changed Matisse's style. Your new series called "Zebra Stripe Paintings", in which they alienated famous paintings with zebra -like stripes. In his introduction to the catalog of her exhibition at the Gallery Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York, described the curator of the Salt Lake City Art Center, Jim Edwards, models her new painting: He called the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, the Italian artist Mimmo Rotella, a representative of the New Realism and Pop Art artist James Rosenquist and Alain Jacquet, her husband. Edward leads the conceptual basis on their step-grandfather, Marcel Duchamp, back. She painted Blue Nude in this style, another reminiscence of her great-grandfather Henri Matisse and his painting Nu bleu: Souvenir de Biskra. By his own admission Sophie Matisse would like to by the alienation of the original works to stimulate the audience to look closer and bring a whole new awareness of the classic original.
2008 Matisse designed for Kilian Hennessy, who died in 2010, the then shareholders of the luxury group LVMH, 50 different painted perfume bottles and their packaging. The following year, she created five painted chess games that are incurred as a reminder of Duchamp, the passionate chess player. In 2010 she painted four of a total of 60 pianos that were exhibited in an exhibition of "Sing for Hope ", a non-profit organization, at Lincoln Center in New York under the title " Sophia Musiki " for sale.
Reception
Copying famous paintings has a long tradition in art history. For example, Rubens has repainted the works of his idol Titian. In contemporary art, it was declared under the name of " appropriation art " for your own art direction. Pop Art artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein supported the art of copying with many plants. In the late 1980s, the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York Mike Bidlo enriched with more than eighty self-made " Picasso ". The latter was like Matisse and other artists such as Elmyr de Hory in 2010 with his work participants in the exhibition " Seconde main " at the Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.