Don T Talk To Me About Matisse Analysis

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THE ARTISTS
A READING OF LAKDASA’S POEM “DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT MATISSE”

“Art is not hermetic and autonomous, but bound up with the social and economical movement of time, as well as conditioned by both artistic tradition and aesthetic ideology” Aden (1986) Art is not a heavenly bliss descended from the skies. Instead it is bound to the history. The ideas and definitions of art are not timeless concepts. They are all closely connected to the socio-cultural assumptions of the societies and culture which fashions them. Art has multiple identities. These identities mark the artist itself. Behind every artistic work there lies an ideology. In western context the classical concept of art stood for a craft based activity.
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The poem starts as a sudden outburst of long suppressed words. Each of them was real artists in their life time. Excluding Matisse, Gogh and Gauguin lived a life of pain anguish, suffering and madness. Matisse never made any didactic painting. He rejected the superiority of modern art. His works were grounded in the traditional discordant colors. His Music and Dance is pre-historical and pre-social. The twisting red figures bring an unknown notion as ancient as ancient as dance itself. At the same time he took a keen interest in the symmetrical beauty of Islamic art. Gauguin was the chief proponent of primitivism. He was disillusioned by the traditional European painting that had become too imitative and lacked symbolic death. He was then impressed by the art of Asia and Africa and Japanese art. In Day of God (1894) he used the idol in painting of Indian tradition. Inspired by primitivism he demonstrated his ‘demons’ as ‘the dark gods’ and tapping a new source of energy. Vincent, who always had the fate of unrequitedness, became resentful at the act of commercializing art. During his stay at Paris (1886-1888) he collected Japanese ukiyo-e wood block…show more content…
A rereading of the mentioned artists is needed. Furthermore enquiry into their life in connection with colonialism and its trend is needed. Definitely it will explore the colonial psyche of the society and individuals reflecting in the field of
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