{"id":2593,"date":"2024-04-29T02:38:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T02:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2024-04-29T02:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T02:38:29","slug":"class-journal-4-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/04\/29\/class-journal-4-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Journal 4\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fauvism and Expressionism were two of the dominant art movements in the early 20th century.  Matisse was a leader of the Fauvist movement, which was heavily inspired by Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Eastern and African art because they valued its &#8220;primitive&#8221; nature which emphasized emotion. Matisse and other Fauvists were interested in using color in abstract ways. Matisse&#8217;s <em>Femme au chapeau\u00a0<\/em>is pure color with every aspect of the figure and even the background being done in vibrant, abstract blocks of color. Matisse uses a very blotchy, unblended, rough application of paint. The application of colors is very arbitrary, a section is a certain color because the artist chose to put it there. This abundant, over-the-top use of color, is meant to expressive and playful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matisse further explores those themes in <em>Le Bonheur de vivre<\/em>. This painting shows a very traditional subject, a scene of leisure amoung an idyllic landscape. It is Matisse&#8217;s style and arbitrary use of color which makes the painting remarkable. The painting is abstract because it does not capture reality, but is clearly expresses emotion. He is trying to create a scene which captures his own joy of life. The pallette feels very warm and inviting, as do the lounging women. The composition of the work contributes to the expression of joy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fauvism and Expressionism were two of the dominant art movements in the early 20th century. Matisse was a leader of the Fauvist movement, which was heavily inspired by Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Eastern and African art because they valued its &#8220;primitive&#8221; nature which emphasized emotion. Matisse and other Fauvists were interested in using color in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}