Promotion of the book "Pneumatic painting: the breathing of Henri Matisse" by the author Milovan Novaković will be held today in Cetinje, in Gallery 42 at 19 p.m.
The event is organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts, and Dr. Dr Miodrag Šuvaković and others Angelina Milosavljevic, and the author live. Moderator is M.Sc Maja Šofranac, vice dean for international cooperation of the Faculty of Fine Arts.
"There is general agreement that the expressive organization of pictorial elements makes it possible Matis's pictures and drawings to breathe. This essay examines the metaphor of pictorial respiration, which mainly rests on the formal level, and exposes Matisse's approach as a specific pneumatic conception in which the breathing process of the painting is intimately connected to the breathing processes of the artist and the observer. To describe the procedures by which the artist invents a special type of chromatic-linear construction whose action leads the artist and the viewer to breathe the painting, the author focuses on three terms that he considers crucial for defining Matisse's pneumatic painting: force, décorativité and rapport. Through their detailed analysis, this book tries to interpret Matisse's statements more precisely, to reexamine generally accepted theoretical and historical art claims, to present new insights, in order to point out the essential change that Matisse's works introduce in painting: the transition from a distant cognitive observation to an affective, breathing relationship with a work of art", is a short summary of the work.
Novaković is a painter, art theorist and translator. He completed specialist studies in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cetinje, and master's studies in Transdisciplinary Humanities and Art Theory at the Faculty of Media and Communications, where he is currently a doctoral student at the Department of Transdisciplinary Studies of Contemporary Art and Media.
He published the book "Pneumatic painting: the breathing of Henri Matisse" in 2019 by "Orion Art" from Belgrade. In addition to theoretical-scientific work and research in the fields of art and philosophy, he also translated "Studies in Classic American Literature" by the British writer David Herbert Lawrence published by the publishing house "Arto" from Podgorica in 2019.
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