The
MATTISSE Bullring project has been implemented by M3 working with Comgenic, a software company whose suite of applications is designed specifically to improve communication in shopping centres and retail markets.
But the artistic highlight of the festival was Monet to
Mattisse: Landscape Painting in France 1874-1914 at the National Gallery of Scotland.
These two painters, van Gogh and Cezanne, were catalysts for me, but other painters were important for similar reasons: Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Bonnard, Cassatt, Munch - for intensely scrutinized private and public moments; Edward Hopper - for his ability to invest a view of a house or the interior of a room with a profound sense of mortality;
Mattisse - for his play, his rhythm, his design.
And Egon Schiele, Henri
Mattisse and Tom Wesselmann, when it comes to international artists.
To help staff plan their journeys to work via public transport, the corporation has invested in
MATTISSE, a real-time traffic and travel information system designed to highlight all available transport choices.
An agreement was signed by Cllr Stewart Stacey, chair of the West Midlands' transportation sub-committee, to supply information from the
MATTISSE computerised system operating in the three areas.
AA Roadwatch is to include data gathered by M3's
Mattisse traffic information system in its web and radio broadcast travel updates.