Henri Matisse was born in
Le Cateau – Cambresis in France on December 31, 1869. He was the son of a merchant. He studied and soon
practiced law. He became
interested in the practices of painting.
In 1892, he gave up his law career and went to Paris to study art. He
was especially popular during his lifetime. He enjoyed the collectorÕs favor, art critics, and also the
younger generation of many great young artists. After Matisse finished studying
art he started to paint and develop his skills more. His first paintings
were outstanding because he saw it only from his point of view. Matisse found
very interesting. But sadly he was
in a terrible injury. He died in the year of November 3,1954. Matisse was a
very great artist when he was alive and when he was dead to other artists were
well known when they were dead but Matisse was different.
To read more about Henri
Matisse you can check out these Websites:
http://www.renoirinc.com/biography/artists/matisse.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mati/hd_mati.htm
http://www.cnac-gp.fr/education/ressources/ENS-matisse-EN/ENS-matisse-en.htm
Master of Colors
Matisse began drawing and painting in the
1890Õs. Matisse pointed some
really aggressive strokes and bold primary colors. MatisseÕs own early style was a conventional from
contemporary art. By 1951 he had
worked on his last piece of artwork, of his life, Deux Dansers. For (two dancers) Matisse had often
dealt with dancing as a subject before, for example in the two dancers he cut
out the two dancers in his point of view.
In 1905 to 1906 Matisse painted one of the most famous paintings in the
20th century named The Joy of Life.
During 1952 Henri Matisse created some cutouts
because he couldnÕt make artwork when he was sick. He had an appendicitis and
this was really hard for him to paint so he had to do cutouts. He used scissors and beautifully
colored paper and thatÕs when he started making cutouts. Henri used a lot of
beautiful colors and thatÕs why he was called ŌThe Master of ColorĶ. For example on top there is an example
of the snowflake. Matisse had cut
snowflakes in different shapes and colors and as the background he put
different colors and it looks really good with the snowflakes. Matisse used a lot of bright colors
when he was doing cutouts. In the
Snowflakes he used bright colors and it really looked good together. Another example is for Blue Nude he
used blue and white and he designed the girl in the way he saw the girl and he
designed her really well and the girl is really pretty so he must of thought
girls were really pretty. After a
while he stopped making cutouts and he worked as a lawyer but he continued to take
art classes. He was a very popular
artist when he was alive, unlike other artists. He was really great at deciding what colors to choose.
To see more of his paintings you can go to these
websites:
One of MatisseÕs contemporaries was
Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso was
born in the year of October 25,1881. They always competed with each other in
the contests. Matisse mostly
always won when they competed. To
learn more about his contemporaries go to:
http://www.matisse-picasso.com/artists/
http://www.picassomatisse.com/Pablo.Picasso.Bio.html
Above
here is the work of a student. As you
can see this student cutout is base on the background and with the picture. The
picture is a metallic pink and the background is a medium purple. The frame is
a pinkish and purplish color. All the colors as you can see they all blend
together.
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Fine Art,
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Old
Masterpiece.com, (2003), Matisse, Henri.
Retrieved April 4, 2008 from http://www.oldmasterpiece.com/painting-en_1755.html
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, (2004, October), Henri Matisse. Retrieved March 31, 2008 from. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mati/hd_mati.htm
Picture credits:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/euwf/ho_2002.456.58.htm
http://home.vs.moe.edu.sg/whitenoise/F_C_E.html
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