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 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