Matisse’s Jazz

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On Thursday, I finally went to the Art Institute to see Matisse’s Jazz exhibit. Usually, I try to see every new exhibit on the day it opens, but as I’ve mentioned multiple times, it’s been a stressful month. Or a couple of months:).

This is a small exhibit, and it made me think. At first, I didn’t quite get the concept. I could not understand why Matisse abandoned painting and drawing in favor of colored paper cutting. I learned that he started using scissors and paper after the surgery, when, for a very long time, he could not stand long enough to paint. But then he switched to this technique entirely, and I was looking and looking, and trying to find the rhythm which I am always looking for in Matisse’s works. And then I finally found it.

Daizies – an earlier Matisse’s work
After – Jazz cutouts
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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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