rs of their own but are simply drawn on the ground so that they assume the same color. The same procedure--lines drawn on a monochromatic background--is one that Matisse used in his own ceramic work and one of his own plates (depicting a nude and decorated with a few stars or flowers) is shown on the table in the lower left-hand corner of Red Studio.
In other respects Matisse's sources are perfectly clear. The use of one-point perspective to depict the interior had been a common convention for centuries. In the High Gothic and early Renaissance periods one-point perspective was used almost exclusively for the depiction of interiors. But artists of these earlier periods re-discovered perspective in order to be able to depict the real world more accurately in their paintings. The use of one-point pers
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