Dreaming Matisse
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11 x 14 Oil on Canvas
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I Posted this after Matisse painting a few days ago and every time
I looked at it I wasn't happy with it. I was trying to follow more
of the Matisse style with less detail and less vivid colors.
Matisse used a lot of drab colors and olive greens in the two
paintings I used as reference. They are not popular colors with
me. I decided to rework it more to my colors and of course so
much more detail. Now...I like it. Hope you do too!
I had a great time with this one. I combines two Matisse paintings together and add others for the was Everything in this painting is Matisse including that funny little cat. Matisse was so bold and free. I always have so much fun combining his patterns and collecting all of the colorful elements for my compositions. Enjoy!
I had a great time with this one. I combines two Matisse paintings together
and add others for the was Everything in this painting is Matisse including
that funny little cat. Matisse was so bold and free. I always have so much fun
combining his patterns and collecting all of the colorful elements for my
compositions. Enjoy!
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Henri Matisse 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was
a French artist, known for his use of color and his fluid and original
draughtsmanship.
In 1905, Matisse and a group of artists now known as "Fauves"
exhibited together in a room at the Salon d' Automne. The paintings
expressed emotion with wild, often dissonant colors, without regard
for the subject's natural colors.
In 1907 Apollinaire, commenting about Matisse in an article published
in La Falange, said, "We are not here in the presence of an extravagant
or an extremist undertaking: Matisse's art is eminently reasonable."
But Matisse's work of the time also encountered vehement criticism,
and it was difficult for him to provide for his family. His controversial
1907 painting Bu bleu was burned in effigy at the Armory Show in
Chicago in 1913.
The decline of the Fauvist movement, after 1906, did nothing to affect the
rise of Matisse; many of his finest works were created between 1906
and 1917,when he was an active part of the great gathering
of artistic talent in Montparnesse, even though he did not quite fit in,
with his conservative appearance and strict bourgeois work habits.
Around 1904 he met Pablo Picasso, who was 12 years younger than he.
The two became life-long friends as well as rivals and are often compared; one
key difference between them is that Matisse drew and painted from nature,
while Picasso was much more inclined to work from imagination. The subjects
painted most frequently by both artists were women and still life, with Matisse
more likely to place his figures in fully realized interiors.
