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...Triptych Gallery exhibit, titled "Our Planet," will be broader in focus, including the paintings, photographs and drawings of students who have done work while away from Harvard...
Light, landscape, enclosed gardens and domes were everywhere; regular human models, harder to come by. Matisse's main one was a girl named Zorah, who worked in a brothel in Tangier. She is most unforgettably commemorated in On the Terrace, the central panel of a triptych he painted in 1912-13, on commission for Morosov. Zorah kneels in front of a bowl of goldfish in the suffused aquamarine light of a terrace. Apparently Matisse was worried that Morosov would object to the use of a prostitute, since the central panels of Russian triptychs often contained figures of the Virgin Mary...
...with a colorist's verve and ingenuity. Here are familiar nouveau nature themes: profusions of rowdy blooms and bursting vines, roe deer and sailboats bobbing on azure seas. In the 9-ft.-tall Cockatoo and Parakeet, a bird with opalescent feathers pecks at vibrant cherries. In the magnificent Landscape Triptych, Tiffany played with shade and light in a glade to produce landscape poetry worthy of the Hudson River school of painting. Vase of Red Peonies, dominated by a glorious clot of blossoms, prefigures abstraction...
...Triptych has become a lot more publicly known and so we get approached by more art classes and student artists," Goldstone says, explaining a reason for the increased number of shows. But Goldstone says Triptych is limited by funding...
...Triptych plans another painting class show for early May, and possibly a show of senior works directly preceding Commencement...