Henri Matisse
1869-1954
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
French Fauvist
Painter
Artistically and
stylistically influenced the following painters and movements
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Edgar Degas,
Cézanne,
Post-Impressionism,
Gauguin,
Paul Signac and
Japanese woodblock prints
About the Painter
"By personal inclination, because he is French and because he is specially gifted as a colourist, Matisse is apt to lay too much stress on the colour. Like Debussy, he cannot always refrain from conventional beauty; Impressionism is in his blood. One sees pictures of Matisse which are full of great inward vitality, produced by the stress of the inner need, and also pictures which possess only outer charm, because they were painted on an outer impulse. (How often one is reminded of Manet in this.) His work seems to be typical French painting, with its dainty sense of melody, raised from time to time to the summit of a great hill above the clouds." -- Wassily Kandinsky
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Henri
Matisse Quotes:
You study, you learn, but
you guard the original
naiveté. It has to be within
you, as desire for drink is
within the drunkard or love
is within the
lover.--Henri Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself
from a good day's work, from
illuminating the fog that
surrounds us. -- Henri
Matisse
There is nothing more
difficult for a truly
creative painter than to
paint a rose, because before
he can do so he has first to
forget all the roses that
were ever painted. -- Henri
Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself
from a good day's work, from
illuminating the fog that
surrounds us. - Henri
Matisse
In art, truth and reality
begin when one no longer
understands what one is
doing or what one knows, and
when there remains an energy
that is all the stronger for
being constrained,
controlled and compressed.
-- Henri Matisse
I don't paint things. I only
paint the difference between
things. -- Henri Matisse
Description of The Fauvist Movement
The Fauvist
movement was the exuberant stepchild
of pointillism
and
impressionism. The
movement was led by Henri
Matisse.
The Fauves emphasized vivid colors, hearty brushstrokes and simplified forms. The subject
matter of the Fauve painters is generally predictable. They favored seascapes, the French countryside, portraits, nudes, and
domestic interiors. The Fauve palette is what set them apart. They used
paint directly from the tube and never mixed their colors. They favored
deep reds, oranges, and bright greens. The Fauve colors seemed intense and
garish, even offensive to some. This new style of paintings was a
reflection of the transformation that was taking place in Europe, the
change from the restrictive Victorian age to a more enlightened,
tolerant society.
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