Matisse and his birds

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• What in the world is going on? What is it that Matisse is seeing?question0.746
  Rhetorical question highlighting the mystery of character in portraits; answered by wholeness.
• In Matisse's cut-outs, every shape is lovingly made; the canvas is entirely made of beings which are loved.claim0.726
  Analysis of Matisse's work as an exemplar of being-making.
• Matisse develops latent white face-center on canvas through dark brush stroke using contrast and positive space to differentiate and intensify existing structure.finding0.724
  Example of harmony-seeking computation in artistic creation where painter recognizes and develops inherent latent centers.
• Matisse's painting process is exactly the kind of step-by-step adaptation with feedback: each brushstroke is a response to the actual emerging painting, making it continuously better.claim0.723
  The Matisse film as an exemplar of living process in art.
• Matisse self-portrait wholenessconcept0.720
  Four drawings of Matisse's face with different features share the same underlying wholeness, demonstrating that character is a global structure.
• Matisse's drawing actions are dominated by concern for the overall balance, coherence, and form of the whole, not by particular details.claim0.720
  Observation used to illustrate the principle that great painters work from the whole.
• The Matisse drawing has the strongest field of centers among the three compared 20th-century artworks and correspondingly the deepest personal feelingclaim0.706
  Demonstrates the correlation between field-of-centers strength and personal feeling using three famous drawings
• The works of Nolde, Matisse, Bonnard, van Gogh and a few modern buildings touch a modern wellspring that is almost the same as the mystical wellspring that inspired historical works, yet in a non‑religious form.claim0.698
  The observation that non‑religious modern works can still achieve a comparable spiritual quality, showing the rootstock is not confined to traditional religion.