Henri Matisse
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“What I am after, above all, is expression.”
Henri Matisse - The Clown
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- Born 1869, died 1954
- Became a lawyer
- Got sick and saw art as life
- Against father’s warning, “you’ll starve!” went to Paris to study art
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Influenced byLight-filled paintings of the impressionists
The word ``impressionniste'' was printed for the first time in the Charivari on the 25 April 1874 by Louis Leroy, after Claude Monet's landscape entitled Impressions: soleil levant [Impressions]. This word was used to call Exposition des Impressionnistes an exhibit held in the salons of the photographer Nadar and organized by the ``Société anonyme des peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs'' [``Anonymous society of painters, sculptors and engravers''], composed of Pissarro, Monet, Sisley, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Guillaumin and Berthe Morisot.
Claude Monet - Impressions: soleil levant
[Impressions] - 1874 -
http://metalab.unc.edu/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/
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Influenced by the intense,
personal visions of:
Van Gogh (van GO)
Vincent van Gogh - Sunflowers - 1889 -
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/collection/catalog/vglpainting.asp?ARTID=80&LANGID=0
Gauguin (go-GAN)
(Eugène-Henri-) Paul Gauguin - Arearea
(Joyousness) - 1892 -
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gauguin/
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Cézanne (say-ZAN)
Paul Cézanne - Still Life with Water
Jug - c. 1892-3 -
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/cezanne/sl/
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Discontent with bright colors alone.
Paintings should have structure, the arrangement of shapes and the spaces between them.
“...to capture the essential character of things.”
Henri Matisse - Odalisque with a Turkish Chair
- 1928
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The first 45 years of figure painting
Reduced his shapes and flattened his colors in order to express the essence of his subject.
Henri Matisse - Goldfish - 1912
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Key elements
- Simplified shapes
- Flat colors
- Repeat patterns
Henri Matisse - Chinese Fish - 1951
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“Finally I have found the most direct way to express myself – the paper cutout”
Henri Matisse - Icarus (shows the
original French text) - 1943
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His process
- Pick a subject
- Create shapes that symbolize the elements within the subject
- Cut out shapes spontaneously
- Arrange (play with) the shapes
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Shape vocabulary
- People and plants are organic (curved)
- Backgrounds are geometric
- Rectangles act as framing devices
- Positive shapes in cut paper
- Negative shapes left from cut
- Space between shapes
- Scale (large vs small)
Henri Matisse - The Knife Thrower
“The truly original artist invents his own signs.”
Henri Matisse - The
Codomas
TEXT and ART not referenced with hyperlink:
Henri Matisse, working with shapes Scholastic Art, Dec 1996/Jan 1997
vol.27, no. 3, Published in cooperation with the National Gallery of
Art. Formerly ART & MAN
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