I knew this exhibit was "deja vu".... I had posted it last year when
the exhibit started in Dallas. Dallas never did do the online
presentation (site still says "coming soon").
DBAE teachers will like how Matisse got started in sculpture. His
first sculpture was after one made by Antoine-Louis Barye, "Jaguar
Devouring a Hair". You can find the Barye work easily on line. I
didn't find the Matisse version in a quickie Google search - but it
may be online. I can imagine how Matisse might have done it. (He did
not copy the Bayre work - he did it in his own style).
Snippets from the article:
>>"Matisse's bronze version of the Barye sculpture is near the
entrance to "Matisse: Painter as Sculptor," a stunning exhibition at
the Baltimore Museum of Art. The Barye is there too. Together they are
worth considerably more than a thousand words, however lavished with
illustrations those words might be."
>>"This show centers on nearly 50 of the 82 sculptures that Matisse
completed. Drawings, prints and paintings are interspersed, creating a
continual interplay across mediums. That Matisse saw drawing as a form
of sculpture is borne out repeatedly here. Even his simplest line
drawings are explorations of three-dimensional possibilities, and
often surge ahead of the sculpture."
