Henri Matisse. Memory of Oceania. Nice-Cimiez, H?tel Régina, summer 1952-early 1953 Memory of Oceania is based on a photograph that Matisse took of a schooner from his window in Tahiti in 1930. At the right, the green rectangle, fuchsia band, black curve, and blue crescent appear to derive from the boat, the boat"s mast and mooring line, and the curtain of the window. More uncertain is the meaning (if any) of the shapes at the upper left. They may describe a blond woman seen from the back—the sharp vertical line being her spine and the surrounding blue–on–white and white–on–blue curves the contours of her body. 所以說其實那一大片象牙色是一個女人的身體
然後至於他為什麼要去塔希提 BBC - Culture 「In front of the canvas, I have no ideas whatever,」 he wrote to his daughter Marguerite in November 1929. In order to dispel this crisis of confid ence, he decided to travel to Tahiti. 可能是去尋找靈感 Although he later denied it, it is also likely that he was deliberately following in the footsteps of the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, who had lived and worked in French Polynesia, and whose work Matisse admired. 也可能是效仿偶像高更……
至於是從哪個窗戶望出去的景色 BBC - Culture 也有說 叫做H?tel Stuart 於是Google上面一搜！
