Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Best Known For…• Use of color and fluid drawing
skills• Drawing, printing, sculpting and
PAINTING• Development of plastic art in
painting and sculpture• One of the leading figures in
modern art• Radical Painter
The Plumed Hat- 1919
Early Work • Works from still lifes and
landscapes to Divisionist technique• Divisionism: “colored
dot painting”• Paintings modeled after
Impressionism
Open Window, Collioure-1905
Fauvism• Went to Paris with
several other artists• Wild, dissonant colors• Colors often didn’t
match natural subject’s coloration• Pablo Picasso influenced
his workLe bonheur de vivre- 1906
After Paris-Later Works
• More relaxed and softer feel
• Oriental odalisques• Blue Nudes• “painting with scissors”
technique
Blue Nude- 1907