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Landscape of Corsica - Henri Matisse - Oil Painting Wall Decor brings gallery-caliber art into everyday spaces. This landscape oil painting is a 100% hand painted oil painting on canvas, created for buyers who want genuine fauvist canvas wall art instead of a mass-produced poster or paper print.
Paysage de Corse, 1898
Oil on canvas
Paysage de Corse was painted in 1898, a year of significant breakthroughs for Matisse, for it was in this year that he surpassed many of the influences to which he had formerly submitted. In Paysage de Corse, it is clear that Matisse has moved through the Impressionist phase that resulted in his early masterpiece, La desserte of the previous year. Light is crucial, but more so are the bold areas of colour that prefigure the Fauve palette that Matisse would increasingly adopt over the forthcoming years. Many of the advances that Matisse made during 1898 were due to the relative seclusion in which he kept himself, for he spent his time away from Paris for the majority of the year, instead spending his time in the South of France and in Corsica.
It was also in that same year that Matisse visited London on his honeymoon. However this was a pretext to view the Turners in the National Gallery in London, upon the advice of Camille Pissarro. Matisse was under-impressed; however despite this one can sense the influence of the master in his handling of paint. In seeing Turner, Matisse moved through the Impressionist phase that had formerly driven his compositions. For in Turner's paintings, Matisse saw not only a new way of treating light in the composition, but a means of creating a dreamlike sense of beauty that was still rooted in reality, but did not literally translate the scene that nature presented. This was an interest that Matisse took to new levels, considering his art to consist "of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream inspired by reality" (Henri Matisse, quoted in P. Schneider, Matisse, London, 1984, p. 60). The possibility remains that Matisse was still indebted in this regard to his former teacher, Gustave Moreau, who had died in early 1898. However, the sheer enjoyment of bold color that is evident in this picture shows the degree to which Matisse had moved on from Moreau's Symbolist leanings.
The present painting appears to owe more to Cézanne or to Gauguin than to any of their predecessors. Matisse's words about the Impressionists are therefore telling; "A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability"(ibid., p. 73).
Collectors often choose this landscape image when searching for landscape oil painting that feels substantial rather than decorative or disposable.
Materials matter for fauvist wall decor. That is why this piece is built on artist-grade canvas with lightfast oil colors, applied by hand rather than output from a printer, and sealed for long-term display.
Style it over a fireplace, behind a reading chair, or along a staircase. Wherever it goes, this fauvist oil painting wall decor adds the layered color that only a hand painted canvas provides.
Whether the search term is landscape oil painting, gallery wall art, or fauvist oil painting wall decor, this hand painted canvas delivers the same thing: a real painted surface, made to your chosen dimensions.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $47.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $77.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $104.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $149.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $291.98 |
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