Perspective: How Notre Dame inspired Henri Matisse, who depicted the cathedral as a living memory
A December 2018 photo of Notre Dame, which inspired Matisse throughout his time living in Paris. By Sebastian Smee Sebastian Smee Art critic Email Bio Follow Art critic April 15 at 6:12 PM The fire that raged through Notre Dame has made us all look at this great cathedral differently. There’s no getting around it. If you have ever been to Paris, chances are you’re furiously ransacking your memories, digging back into past sensations and worrying about what lies ahead.
No details in that one. It was a strangely casual way to treat so grand a building. Matisse was acting with the heretical nonchalance of a radical painter, yes, but also with the nonchalance of a lover, of someone who knows something intimately and can treat it as a given, a birthright, without a tourist’s self-conscious reverence.
Then, he did something so radical he didn’t understand it himself. In fact, he refrained from exhibiting this second “View of Notre-Dame,” 1914, for 35 years, when his fears were confirmed. It was regarded as “an unfinished sketch to which Matisse had unaccountably signed his name.”
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