Thank you so much for the Barnes Take Out. I love your museum and it is so helpful to get the analysis of a curator in order to have context and in depth understanding of each painting.

Martha, thank you! What a wonderful gift to those of us confined to our homes. Love this series!

Great presentation.Thoroughly enjoyed the picture and its discussion. Thanks.

Thank you for opening up the world of art to me.

Excellent! Thank you so much!

We are really enjoying these take-outs. Learning to notice things I had missed before. Very interested to hear about the Moroccan influences in the Matisse painting, but surprised there was no mention of what to me was the HUGE one - the really dominating use of the famous Majorelle blue of Marakesh.

Love, Love, Love this quiet time with Art. Thank you

I'm enjoying the daily Barnes takeout. Your comments about the relationship between reality and artifice represented in Matisse's paintings was particularly interesting. I will be looking for that philosophical play as I explore more of his paintings in the future.

As always- a wonderful highlight of my day- and amazing to have these fantastic curations- thanks so much for bringing so many of my favorite artists and paintings to life for me/us during this difficult time.

Thank you for giving lessons in life. It is very enjoyable in these difficult times.

Thank you for posting these. The commentary is interesting, and something nice to listen to while we're distancing.

Thank you very much for your takeouts! They allow me to see favorite masterpieces and understand them deeper. I love your museum. And your project is important for me because it is impossible even to imagine now when I would be able to visit the museum again (. Greeting from St. Petersburg, Russia!

Wonderful color in this one... Would love to see more of Matisse!

Thank you!

I love the timing of these uploads, as they have become my lunch companion during these times! (It's like my own 'lunch & learn'.) I enjoyed this commentary, including you own unique views on it. You passion comes through (love that you use your hands while talking :) One question- why do you think Matisse 'blurred' her hands and feet?

Also - thank you! I love this!

The mastery with formal elements is clear here, i.e., balance of vertical/horizontal elements.

Very interesting talk on this painting. Is the bronze sculpture by Matisse at the Barnes? It would have been fabulous to have seen that in the video. Also, what is the name of the painting that Matisse painted in Morocco hanging on the wall? Is it "Zorah in Yellow" painted in 1912? Is that at the Barnes, also? I really enjoyed The Barnes Collection museum on my visit a couple of years ago, as I had wanted to visit for decades, when it was still in Marion. Looking forward to another of your talks. Would love to hear about

Love seeing the vibrant colors and their juxtapositions. Everything in this painting is some thing except for the two yellow rectangles by the doorway. Any idea why or what these are? Clearly they are part of moving the eye around the painting since the same color is used in the screen and the placemat on the table, but I think it's odd that they are not identifiable as something when everything else is.

Please provide the name of the sculpture which sits on the table.

These are interesting, but a little longer than I would prefer. Also, I would have liked to have seen a photo of Matisse's actual sculpture and paintings that are included in this painting. For me, those would have been more interesting than some of the details about the painting technique.

I love the explanations of all of paintings. Very interesting. Something I didn’t observed when I visited the Barnes museum. However this one about the Matisse is over done. I think he just made several mistakes and forgot what he did. And you are just making up thoughts or excuses. Not my favorite.