Hvorfor malede henri matisse den grønne stribe?
Green Stripe
Både beundrere og kritikere af Matisse har karakteriseret Den grønne stribe som et foruroligende billede: En ven af maleriets ejere Michael og Sarah Stein kaldte det "en vanvittig karikatur af et portræt", og i 1910 skrev kritikeren Gelett Burgess, at Den grønne stribe var Matisse's "straf" af Amélie, der tvang beskueren "til at se et mærkeligt og frygteligt aspekt i hende". Kunsthistorikeren John Klein har foreslået, at vanskeligheder i Matisses ægteskab kan have bidraget til portrættets upersonlige og maskeagtige karakter.
Both admirers and critics of Matisse have characterized The Green Stripe as a disturbing image: a friend of the painting's owners Michael and Sarah Stein called it "a demented caricature of a portrait", and in 1910 the critic Gelett Burgess wrote that The Green Stripe was Matisse's "punishment" of Amélie that compelled the viewer "to see in her a strange and terrible aspect." The art historian John Klein has suggested that difficulties in the Matisses' marriage may have contributed to the portrait's impersonal and mask-like character.
Green Stripe