Matisse develops latent white face-center on canvas through dark brush stroke using contrast and positive space to differentiate and intensify existing structure.

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• 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.claim0.832
  The Matisse film as an exemplar of living process in art.
• Matisse's drawing actions are dominated by concern for the overall balance, coherence, and form of the whole, not by particular details.claim0.824
  Observation used to illustrate the principle that great painters work from the whole.
• In Matisse's cut-outs, every shape is lovingly made; the canvas is entirely made of beings which are loved.claim0.816
  Analysis of Matisse's work as an exemplar of being-making.
• The Matisse drawing has the strongest field of centers among the three compared 20th-century artworks and correspondingly the deepest personal feelingclaim0.806
  Demonstrates the correlation between field-of-centers strength and personal feeling using three famous drawings
• The great life in works by Matisse and van Gogh is somewhat misleading because the same feeling of life can occur in a dirty hut or slum.claim0.769
  Warns against equating life only with high art; ordinariness can have equal life.
• The process used by large commercial offices like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is not like Matisse's because it lacks continuous feedback from reality; each pencil stroke is only a reaction to previous pencil strokes.claim0.761
  Critical distinction between true feedback-based process and drawing-based design.
• Matisse self-portrait wholenessconcept0.758
  Four drawings of Matisse's face with different features share the same underlying wholeness, demonstrating that character is a global structure.
• 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.claim0.747
  The observation that non‑religious modern works can still achieve a comparable spiritual quality, showing the rootstock is not confined to traditional religion.