Lent 2023
We are going to take our Lenten journey with the artist, Henri Matisse as a guide and helper along the way. He once said he liked to pray with a pencil, He said: “At the moment I go every morning to say my prayers, pencil in hand; I stand in front of a pomegranate tree covered in blossom, each flower at a different stage, and I watch their transformation... filled with admiration for the work of God. Is this not a way of praying?”
Henri Matisse, is one of the most innovative, influential, and beloved artists in modern history, celebrated above all as a master colourist. From his childhood growing up Roman Catholic in a small town in France, to the major work at the end of his life he declared to be his masterpiece, the Chapel of the Rosary in Venice, Matisse explored spiritual and theological themes throughout his life, sometimes implicitly, sometimes explicitly.
Join us on the journey.
Links to paintings:
ASH WEDNESDAY
Still Life with Books and Candle (1890)
Blue Pot and Lemon (1897)
Still Life with Compote, Apples and Oranges (1899)
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
Woman with a Hat (1905)
The Roofs of Collioure (1905)
SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT
Open Window, Collioure (1905)
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
Four self-portraits (1947)
Marguerite Reading (c.1906)
Large Face (Mask) (1952)
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT
The Red Studio (1911)
Red Room (Harmony in Red) (1908)
Woman in a Purple Coat (1937)
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
French Window at Collioure (1914)
View of Notre Dame (1914)
Open Window, Collioure (1905)
A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon (1902)
Bathers by a River (1916)
PALM SUNDAY
Icarus (1947)
Snow Flowers (1951)
Christmas Eve (1952)
The Horse, The Rider and The Clown (1947)
Henri Matisse and the colours of Lent
A guide for the season of Lent produced by Salt |