His first solo exhibition was at Ambroise Vollard's gallery in 1904, without much success. In 1899, he devoted much of his energy to working in clay, completing The Slave in 1903. Having made his first attempt at sculpture, a copy after Antoine-Louis Barye, His paintings of 1902-03, a period of material hardship for the artist, are comparatively somber and reveal a preoccupation with form. Many of Matisse's paintings from 1898 to 1901 make use of a Divisionist technique he adopted after reading Paul Signac's essay, " Eugene Delacroix and Néo-impressionisme". In Cézanne's sense of pictorial structure and colour Matisse found his main inspiration. Van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne's Three Bathers. The work he hung and displayed in his home included a plaster bust by Rodin, a painting by Gauguin, a drawing by Matisse immersed himself in the work of others and went into debt from buying work from Paris in February 1899 he worked beside Albert Marquet and met André Derain, Jean Puy, and Jules Flandrin. Turner and then went on a trip to Corsica. In 1898, on the advice of Camille Pissarro, he went to London to study the paintings of J. "Russell was my teacher, and Russell explained colour theory to me."
Matisse's style changed completely abandoning his earth-coloured palette for bright colours. Paintings of Vincent van Gogh - who had been a friend of Russell - and gave him one of Russell introduced him to Impressionism and to In 1896, Matisse, an unknown art student at the time, visited the Australian painter John Russell on the island Belle Ile off the coast of Brittany. Marguerite and Amélie often served as models for Matisse. In 1898 he married Amélie Noellie Parayre the two raised Marguerite together and had two sons, Jean (born 1899) and With the model Caroline Joblau, he had a daughter, Marguerite, born in 1894. He made copies of four Chardin paintings in the Louvre. Chardin was one of Matisse's most admired painters as an art student Matisse was influenced by the works of earlier masters such as Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Nicolas Poussin,Īnd Antoine Watteau, as well as by modern artists such as Edouard Manet, and by Japanese art. Landscapes in a traditional style, at which he achieved reasonable proficiency. In 1891, he returned to Paris to study art at the Académie Julian and became a student of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau. He discovered "a kind of paradise" as he later described it, and decided to become an artist, deeply disappointing Supplies during a period of convalescence following an attack of appendicitis. He first started to paint in 1889, after his mother brought him art
He went to Paris to study law, working as a court administrator in Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining his qualification. He grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois, Picardy, France, where his parents owned a flower business he was their first son. Henri Matisse was born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, Nord, France. Language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. Who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.Īlthough he was initially labeled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 - 3 November 1954), one of the undisputed masters of 20th century art, was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. Woman with a Hat (Femme au chapeau), 1905.
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