Pneumatsko slikarstvo: disanje Anrija Matisa

There is almost general agreement that the expressive organization of pictorial elements allows Henri Matisse's paintings and drawings to breathe. This treatise critically examines the metaphoric and rhetorics of pictorial respiration based solely on the formal level and expounds Matisse's approach as a specific pneumatic conception wherein the process of picture breathing is closely connected to the breathing processes of the artist and the observer. To describe the procedures whereby a painter invents a specific type of chromatic-linear construction whose agency induces artist and the observer to breathe with the picture, the author focuses on three notions he considers crucial for defining Matisse's pneumatic painting: 'force', 'décorativité', and 'rapport'. Through their in-depth discussion, in this book the endeavor was made to accurately interpret Matisse's statements, to reconsider generally accepted assumptions, to bring new insights, so as to point out the significant change that Matisse's works introduce into the painting: the shift from a distant cognitive observation to an affective, breathing relationship with the artwork.