He walks, tousled, overcoat collar pulled up, thick tortoiseshell glasses, the air fallen from the nest, as always.
On July 15, 1965, the 34-year-old filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard crosses the wise row of rooms of the Museum of Modern Art at a rapid pace.
“Our parents said that Rembrandt and Titian were great painters.
And we can see that,
he said, stopping dead in front of
La Blouse roumaine
de Matisse, a red canvas from 1940.
It's funny, it's the same time as the poetry of Aragon, it made me discover modern poetry.
Aragon is always digression, ideas above others.
And Matisse is about forms.
We do that, then another, then a third.
It looks quite simple, this painting, purely decorative, a blouse ... And then, the more you look at it, the more you discover it, like a feeling, a young girl dreaming.
It is a thought and a feeling. "
He pinned a postcard from
La Blouse roumaine
to the wall of a room in
Pierrot le fou
(1965).
Does Matisse hold the keys
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