Artist Henri Matisse
wrote a learned treatise
Also many a model he did depict
maidens it seems all hand picked
The flowers are not alone,
Their souls belong to the bees,
they belong to butterflies,
belong to God,
Above all, don’t pick them,
Because as soon as they die,
Except in a blue and yellow vase
Painted by Matisse.
Picasso Vs. Matisse
You're Looking At Me
Sideways
But I'm Just Trying To
Catch The Drift.
-Gray Squirrel
05-25-2025
BLUE NUDE SERIES
no doubts
cut-outs
scissors of
osmosis mode
maquettes
& abstracts
shapes
stark
sensation
collage
to imitate
&
never
fade
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. C U T E cut-outs *
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Klee set the art world free
in his Once emerged from the grey of night' poetry
Unifying colour & words
An idea never previously heard
An experimental start
With his posey picture art-
Matisse
brushed
no more..
scissors
paper
glue
the
colour
cut-outs
littered
the floor
with
shapes
anew
so blue
so blue
of
osmosis mode
maquettes
& abstracts
shapely
but
stark
Once emerged from the grey of night.
Firm,
Green vase,
With the curves,
Of a lovely woman,
Within,
You caress,
Tender,
Sweet,
Vibrancies,
Of,
Flowers,
That gaze,
Like dream,
Upon,
The mediterranean,
Shore,
Like an exotic woman,
Embraces,
Her love,
Her tears and laughter,
With bright lemons,
By her hem
Reynaldo Casison
With
fingers
bent
he brushed
no more
scissors
paper
glue
alors
alors-
colour
cut-outs
litter
the floor
and
shapes
anew
so blue
so blue
MATISSE MAIDENS
Maidens..so many.
Marguerite
dressed so neat
Laurette and
Lorette so sad, so sweet.
The upstairs maid with Greta Moll
his still life doll.
Odalisques
curves and shapes,
in colour and drapes.
Chapeaux and Chevelure
with locks astray.
A sister or two,and a wife,
green with envy,
to paint
and portray
my
eye was
attracted
to the Blue nude*
by the intensity of colour-
the
image
triggering
stark sensations
drawn by the simple abstract shape.
*Matisse's Blue Nude IV
in a simple abstract shape-
stark sensations surface
nude abstractions-
cut-outs
blue on blue
a Hiku is any English language variation on the Japanese haiku
a melange
of coleur
in cut-outs
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