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