Red: Henri Matisse's Harmony In Red

Henri Matisse’s “Harmony in Red (The Red Room)” is surely red. This painting utilizes a vibrant palette of color with Red being his primary color of choice. This is a painting of a women standing in a red room on the right side of the table, a profile view of her, appearing to assembling a fruit arrangement on the table. She appears to be a maid during the Victorian era by the way she is dressed with the high neck blouse a protective apron and the scalloping of the blouse at the wrists as well as with her hair gathered on the top of her head. She also looks as if she is sad with her head tilted down and the expression that is on her face. The tablecloth and wallpaper run together without distinction and is crowded with the same vibrant blue patterns of a suggested flower arrangement and curved lines of what looks like limbs of a tree or the antlers of a buck. On top of the table it has what appears to be fruit, lemons, limes, oranges, and apples, scattered on it and displayed on pedestals. There are two glass decanters on opposite sides of the center fruit arrangement which has a vase …show more content…
The trees look as if they are young in age telling by the size of their trunks and appear to have blossoms on them giving the feeling of spring time. The little yellow and blue dots on the ground just between the trees resembling ground flowers with thick trimmed green bush just outside the window. And there is what looks like a barn that is pink in color in the distance off to the left of the window view. The sky is all the same color blue alluding that it is evening furthermore the green grass is also all one color and flat that is it hard to tell if it is a view of a distant valley or of a garden yet the view looking out the window looks as if it is a painting in of