Enigma of the noble expanse

oh magnificent visage
serenely woven
from a pure flight
into a stroke
certain of path
by a sudden rift.
He saw
the distant as near.
He freed.
(to free: to protect an arrival into hesitant nearing)
- Martin Heidegger, On a Drawing by Henri Matisse

Renoir told me: When I have arranged a bouquet in order to paint it, I go round to
the side I had not seen.
- Henri Matisse, Jazz, 1947.