Paul Matisse
Paul Matisse ( born 1933 in New York) is an American artist and inventor. He is particularly known for his installations that are interactive to some extent. He is the inventor of Kalliroskops.
Life and work
Paul Matisse, the son of Pierre Matisse and Alexina " Teeny " Matisse, born Sattler, who married her second husband, Marcel Duchamp, and the grandson of the French painter Henri Matisse. In 1954, Paul Matisse earned a degree from Harvard University, where he had lived in Eliot House with Stephen Joyce, grandson of James Joyce, as well as with Sadruddin Aga Khan. After attending college, he studied briefly at the Harvard Graduate School of Design before he went into the product development at Arthur D. Little.
On December 27, 1958 married Sarah Barret Matisse. For the wedding gave Duchamp his stepson as an art object waistcoat, a vest made of green wool, was on the five buttons in mirror writing Sally, her pet name to read. 1962 Matisse made his own business and established Kalliroskope. 1965 his daughter Sophie was born. In 1968 he ordered after Duchamp's death, his extensive estate, and translated and published a large number of notes into English. On behalf of the Philadelphia Museum he reconstructed a posthumously discovered and once quite shocking Duchamp 's masterpiece, Etant Donné. Like his stepfather, who brought with readymades the traditional art scene is in motion, even Paul Matisse fascinated by kinetic art.
From 1977 to 1979 helped Matisse Alexander Calder to create a sculpture for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. After that, his career as an artist began.
Currently, his place of residence is in a former church of Baptists in Groton, Massachusetts.
Works (selection)
- Memorial Bell for the " National Japanese - American Memorial to Patriotism " in Washington (2001)
- Kendall tape (1987 ), an interactive musical sculpture in a subway station in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Charlestown Bells, an interactive musical sculpture on the Charles River Dam between Boston and the neighborhood of Charlestown
- Musical Fence ( 1980), an interactive musical sculpture, formerly situated in Cambridge Massachusetts and now at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and at the Science Museum in Vermont.