I had no idea they had so much Matisse at the Ermitage! Three, three entire rooms filled with his paintings - amazing!
Two of my favorite paintings in one room: the "Dance" (facing the "Music"), and "The Red Room."
This used to be one of my favorite paintings, and now that I saw it in person it definitely is. I kept walking in and out the room, I couldn't decide to finally leave it. The painting is amazing, the more I look at it the more I fall in love with it. The lady thinks she's just setting the table, while everything around here is dancing, and the tablecloth is also the wallpaper and they are a blue woods, the window a painting (or vice versa), and all these colors just jump out of the frame and take you in with them. After five minutes that you look at it I swear it starts moving. Also, interestingly, the frame doesn't cover it perfectly and you can see beyond the contour. A sort of double framing, or some sort of postmetasomething for the joy of the postmetamodern eye :)
It is one of the few felicitously set rooms of the museum, not only a jumble of random works, but a semi-coherent display of dancing paintings and paintings about dancing.
I don't usually like to take pictures of paintings, but here I couldn't keep myself because I couldn't believe my luck!
And can you believe that something like this
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Beauty comes in many shapes
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