Matisse

Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 is the title of an exhibition that explores a fundamental period in the artistic career of French painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954). It will remain open from July 18 until October 11. Organized by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the exhibition explores a significant period in Matisse's trajectory, when the artist ¿developed his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works.¿ By presenting 120 paintings, drawings, and prints ¿ created during the five years between 1913 and 1917 ¿ the exhibition aims at showing Matisse's working process and the experimentation to which he would refer as his ¿Methods of Modern Construction.¿ The exhibition curator, John Elderfield, has said that the goal of the exhibition is to address the great transformations that Matisse underwent after his return from Morocco in mid-1913 and when he decided to make a truly drastic change in his artistic approach, going from colorful drawings to emphasizing form.