Blue Nude

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Blue Nude is a famous early 20th-century painting by Henri Matisse that exemplifies his bold use of color and simplified forms within the Fauvist movement.


Statements (43)
Predicate Object
instanceOf oil painting
painting
artHistoricalPeriod Modern art
early 20th century
artist Henri Matisse
artMovement Fauvism
cataloguedAs Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)
collection Baltimore Museum of Art
colorDominance blue
compositionFeature flattened pictorial space
strong contour lines
country United States
countryOfOrigin France
creator Henri Matisse
depicts female nude
describedBySource early 20th-century painting
exhibitedAt Baltimore Museum of Art permanent collection
genre nude painting
hasColor blue
green
ochre
hasPart reclining female figure
tropical vegetation background
inception 1907
influenced later modernist figurative painting
influencedBy Henri Matisse’s travels in North Africa
languageOfTitle English
location Baltimore Museum of Art
materialUsed canvas
oil paint
medium oil paint
movement Fauvism
notability iconic work of Fauvism
notableWorkOf Henri Matisse
styleCharacteristic bold use of color
expressive distortion
simplified forms
support canvas
theme exoticism
female body
sensuality
title Blue Nude
Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse ("Blue Nudes series")
notableWork
Blue Nude
Blue Nude ("Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)")
title
Blue Nude ("Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra)")
cataloguedAs
The Snail ("Blue Nude II")
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