Harmony in Red, 1908, Henri Matisse
       

The meniscus of a fainter orange or paler lemon is a concession of
essences to take up space and draw lines of viscosity against their
crystal containers. She is held in a pattern of wild domesticity, the
rebellion latent in refinement, spring on the ground when there
is still snow in the trees. Our scarlet houses, pale on the horizon,
burn in crimson containment of themselves.

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