Mini-Compositions in Collage Unit 1: Henri Matisse
Mini-Compositions in Collage LTC 4240: Art for Children Spring
Semester 2013
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Henri Matisse was born in Northern France in 1869. His formal
education was in law, but was introduced to painting by his mother
in 1889 while recovering from appendicitis. From the moment I held
the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life! Henri
Matisse Henri Matisse: Lawyer to Artist Matisse with his mother,
1889
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Henri Matisse: Wild Beast After a summer in St. Tropez in 1904,
Matisses use of color became more daring, imaginative, and
expressive. Matisse became a leader among a group of like-minded
painters called the fauves, or wild beasts, by art critics. "A pot
of paint has been flung in the face of the public! One critic
stated, "A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public!
(Tynes, 2010, para. 2) When exhibited in 1905, Lady With a Hat
received particularly sharp criticism. Henri Matisse, Lady With a
Hat, 1905
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A cancer diagnosis and related surgery in 1941, confined artist
Matisse to a wheelchair. He could no longer stand at an easel. This
represented a creative turning point in the life of the artist
painting with scissors. For the next 14 years of his life, Matisse
would express his phenomenal creativity and artistic abilities
through an art process he called painting with scissors. Henri
Matisse: Triumph from Tragedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlnBcaZEGb0
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Mattise, the French artist once identified as a fauvist painter
fauvist painter...
