馬蒂斯作品 Portrait of Madame Matisse.

The green line

1905

The Green Stripe (La Raie Verte), also known as Portrait of Madame Matisse. The Green Line, is a portrait by Henri Matisse of his wife, Amélie Noellie Matisse-Parayre. It is an oil painting on canvas, completed autumn or winter 1905. It is named for the green band that divides the face in half, by which Matisse sought to produce a sense of light, shadow, and volume without using traditional shading. Matisse's colorism was shocking at the time. When the painting was exhibited in Paris in 1906 such works were being derisively labeled as the creations of Les Fauves (the wild beasts), along with similar works of André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck.

馬蒂斯作品 Portrait of Madame Matisse

I was really inspired by Matisse's use of color during the early 1900's. Matisse was a strong believer in color. He really supported the use of colors straight out of the tube. So I decided to create a portrait of a man using mostly colors straight out of the tube. I was inspired specifically by Matisse's Portrait of Madame Matisse, especially his use of color to create a sense of three dimensionality. In this painting, I tried using the juxtaposition between colors by putting warm and cool colors next to each other. Just as seen in The Portrait of Madame Matisse, I inserted a green stripe which separates the warm and cool skin tones of the man's face to create a better sense of three dimensionality. The background colors are mostly a juxtaposition of complimentary colors which create a better sense of contrast.