Henry Matisse – Interior with Goldfish (1914)

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Henry Matisse – Interior with Goldfish (1914)

“The goldfish motif has been connected to theme of contemplation. Noted to be aware of this theme, Matisse once remarked to Marcel Sembat, “those big devils, there for hours, contemplative, before a flower and some red fish.” On Goldfish and Palette, this “artistic meditation is stressed, as the Moroccans’ gaze becomes likened to the artist’s own reflections on artistic containment.”

Goldfish also came to symbolize a tranquil and serene state of mind that he perceived the Moroccans to have, which he admired, as well as a “paradise lost”. Appealing for “contemplative relaxation for the viewer” was a major theme in Matisse’s work found in Goldfish.

Pictorial space and its configuration is also a common theme found in the goldfish paintings. Goldfish had a “complex construction of pictorial space.” The arrangement of Interior with a Goldfish Bowl “underscores Matisse’s interest in windows as passageways between interior and exterior spaces.” Matisse’s studio is often found in the goldfish paintings, and the goldfish swimming around in aquariums has been viewed as a metaphor for the studio.

Kate Linker of Artforum wrote that implicit features “in these studios” are extended to other spaces, elaborating that “the spaces in Matisse’s paintings are not generally organized by formal coherence or design, but in a symbolic manner, using repetitions of shape and hue, thematic analogies or pictorial effects to enforce, or embody, their meaning.”

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