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

Works from still lifes and landscapes to Divisionist technique Early Work Works from still lifes and landscapes to Divisionist technique Divisionism: “colored dot painting” Paintings modeled after Impressionism Open Window, Collioure-1905

Went to Paris with several other artists Wild, dissonant colors Fauvism Went to Paris with several other artists Wild, dissonant colors Colors often didn’t match natural subject’s coloration Pablo Picasso influenced his work Le bonheur de vivre- 1906

After Paris-Later Works More relaxed and softer feel Oriental odalisques Blue Nudes “painting with scissors” technique Blue Nude- 1907