{"id":971,"date":"2018-01-11T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T07:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.ambogdan.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2020-10-13T03:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T01:07:39","slug":"la-blouse-roumaine-henri-matisse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambogdan.com\/la-blouse-roumaine-henri-matisse\/","title":{"rendered":"La Blouse Roumaine and Henri Matisse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henri Matisse and his La Blouse Roumaine<\/em>\u00a0painting are the subject of this new article dedicated to the beauty of the Romanian traditional blouse. When I wrote the first article about IA, little did I know what feedback I would get. So, here I am again with what I hope to be a nice story about colors, symbols and friendship. And you’ll se why I mentioned the latter one!<\/p>\n

La Blouse Roumaine \u2026 the best known Romanian IA<\/h2>\n

First of all, few know that\u00a0French painter Henri Matisse was one of the first to capture the beauty of the Romanian traditional blouse simply called IE. <\/em>Although\u00a0<\/em>he painted and draw many sketches of the Romanian IA, his painting called\u00a0La Blouse Roumaine<\/em>\u00a0is the best known one. It’s an oil-on-canvas painting dated 1940. It measures 92 \u00d7 73 cm and is held at the Mus\u00e9e National d’Art Moderne in Paris.<\/p>\n

\"Henri

Henri Matisse paintings \u2013 1. La Blouse Roumaine (1940) 2. Peasant blouse (1936) 3. La Hongroise a la blouse verte<\/p><\/div>\n

It took Matisse few years to show the world his Romanian paintings. There were hundreds trials and sketches before there was a Romanian blouses collection. There are plenty of Romanian symbols used in the traditional IA embroidery.<\/p>\n

“Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture’s execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of the composition for which they were created, these signs have no further use.” (Henri Matisse)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Henri

Few sketches of Romanian IAs by Henri Matisse. The second (middle) sketch called \u201cFemme \u00e0 la blouse roumaine\u201d (1943) was drawn in Vence was sold by Christie\u2019s in 2011 to a private collector for $191,951.<\/p><\/div>\n

Henri Matisse, Theodor Pallady and the Romanian IA<\/h2>\n

Furthermore, even fewer know that Matisse’s Romanian paintings were inspired by a collection of traditional blouses he received as a gift from Theodor Pallady. Pallady was and still is one of most famous Romanian painters of all times. Matisse had been friend with Pallady for many years when he got this gift. They met around 1892, in Paris, in Gustave Moreau’s studio were they were working along with Georges Rouault and Albert Marquet.<\/p>\n

\"Henri

Henri Matisse \u2013 1. Woman Seated in an Armchair, (1940); 2. Still Life With Sleeper (1940)<\/p><\/div>\n

Matisse’s interest in oriental themes first emerged in the 1920s when he began to express an interest in the interplay of ornamental patterns. This fascination with decorative designs is seen in these works and it will remain with Matisse till the end of his life.<\/p>\n

\"Henri

Henri Matisse \u2013 1. La Blouse payssane 2. The Dream (1940)<\/p><\/div>\n

Noteworthy is that in 2012 New York Metropolitan Museum of Art opened “Matisse: In Search of True Painting.”<\/em> Vogue<\/a> magazine called it\u00a0“the eye-opening new exhibition”<\/em>.\u00a0 The star painting of the exhibition was Matisse’s voluptuous called “The Dream”<\/em> (1940), another portrait of a woman sleeping and wearing a Romanian traditional blouse.<\/p>\n

Falling in love with colors …<\/h2>\n

As one would expect from such a great artist as Matisse, his style evolved throughout\u00a0time, yet he kept the traditional costume as a source of inspiration and ideas. I’m no art expert, but my feeling is that the generous color palette of the Romanian IAs had something to do with this. Matisse’s own personal beliefs about the use of color are most noteworthy:<\/p>\n

“Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Henri

Henri Matisse \u2013 1. La Gerbe (1953) 2. Stained glass, Chapel of the Rosary (Vence)<\/p><\/div>\n

“A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.”<\/p>\n

“Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist’s brain.”<\/p>\n

“Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In conclusion \u2026<\/h2>\n

Matisse and Pallady’s friendship lasted a lifetime.\u00a0What neither one of them imagined is that their admiration for our national blouse years later will make the Romanian IA a fashion icon<\/a>. But, that’s another story worth knowing! And if you want to know more about the Romanian IAs, you can check these two articles: Falling in Love with My Romanian IA<\/a> and\u00a0Wearing the Romanian IA on Wedding\u00a0Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, you can also check out on Facebook\u00a0La Blouse Roumaine<\/a>\u00a0or follow on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0the stories published by\u00a0La Blouse Roumaine, <\/em>the first online community supporting IA, the symbol of the Romanian cultural identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Romanian IA or La Blouse Roumaine as it came to be known has a long lasting love story with French painter Henri Matisse. This is their story … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[544,322,345,321,324],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romania","tag-featured-2","tag-henri-matisse","tag-la-blouse-roumaine","tag-romanian-ia","tag-theodor-pallady"],"yoast_head":"\nLa Blouse Roumaine - Henri Matisse's Colorful Love Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"La Blouse Roumaine and Henri Matisse - it's the love story without words. It's a love expressed through colors, forms and Romanian symbols. 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