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    La Musique (English: The Music), by Henri Emile Benoit Matisse. Henri Matisse was born in France in 1869 and is often given credit to being a founder of the “Fauve” or “wild beast” movement. This movement in art was generally known for bright colors and often quite lively compositions. La Musique was completed in 1939 using oil paints on canvas. Matisse was often described as having a deep admiration for dancing and music, with that being said, this was not his only work of art that involved or

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    effort to create a more meaningful understanding, as well a deeper appreciation, of the nuances, techniques, and design choices employed in these attempts, a comparison will be made between Edouard Vuillard’s Interior With a Screen (1909-1910) and Henri Matisse’s Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra) (1907). In this essay, each artist’s approach to the subject of the female nude will be closely analyzed, compared, and contrasted, as will their styles of painting, handling of visual elements, and their use

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    Who Is Henri Matisse?

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    Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869, In Le Cateau Cambresis, France. When Henri was born he was in a small tumbledown weavers cottage on the rue du Chene Arnaud in the textile town of Le Cateau Cambresis at eight o'clock in the evening on the last night of the year [31 December 1869.] The house the Henri was held in had two bedrooms, it had an earth floor [just dirt and grass.] It also had a leaky roof [from the rain outside.] Matisse grew up in a world that was still detaching itself from

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    Henri Matisse Biography

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    Henri Matisse was a French artist during the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1941, Matisse was diagnosed with abdominal cancer leaving him bedridden. His art moved from paintings, sculptures, and printmakings to decoupage. With the help of assistants, Matisse produced art by arranging colorful pre-painted sheets of paper into dynamic compositions. This technique was his major medium in the final decade of his life. Matisse created dynamic compositions using the decoupage method and later introduced

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    indistinguishable in who the artist was. Fauvism on the other hand, “was the first of the avant-garde movements that flourished in France in the early years of the twentieth century” (Rewald, Hilbrunn Timeline of Art History). Fauvism was first portrayed by Henri Matisse and also shown somewhat in the paints of Van Gogh’s. So what is the different between Cubism and Fauvism? Many characteristics separate Cubism from Fauvism, such as: multiple angles, reconstruct objects, flattened space and geometric blocks of

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    Matisse once said, “A good art work should be like an arm chair in which you could relax at the end of the day”. This statement of Matisse’s indicates that artist’s artwork should be an art of balance, of purity and tranquillity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. An art which is created for everyone in society and that is like a pacifying influence, something like a good arm chair in which you could rest from physical fatigue. Moreover, his paintings are about imagination, dreams and

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    view on nature versus reality, and their view on the relationship between art and truth. The three artists and works will be the Fauvist Henri Matisse’s “Notes of a Painter,” the German Expressionist Franz Marc’s “How Does a Horse See the World?” as well as “Aphorism,” and lastly the Dadaist Jean Arp’s, “Abstract Art, Concrete Art.” This section

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    Purple Coat by Henri Matisse (1937), oil on canvas. 1937 was a turbulent year globally. From the Hindenburg blimp exploding, to the Japanese invasion of China, and the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Many events happened that year that would forever alter the course of history. Henri Matisse, an eclectic soul, would make his mark upon 1937 as well with Woman In A Purple Coat. This piece would cause all who came before and after him to rethink how they would make their legacy, as Matisse moved the bar

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    These three famous paintings are going to be analyzed below, pointing their similarities and differences. Henri Matisse was mostly known for his work during the Fauvism movement, Pablo Picasso excelled during the Cubism movement and Paul Cezanne showed his talents through the Post-Impressionism movement. Discussion Matisse’s painting shows a broad open field focusing on the bright landscape with a lot of nature and the expression of sensuality and eroticism. The bodies in this painting are seemed

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    This formal and historical art analysis will define the color, composition, line, and values of the revolutionary modernist painting “The Rose Marble Table” (1917) by Henri Matisse. Matisse utilizes a modernist approach to this painting by presenting a minimalist approach to the placement of the rose and the table, which presents a very basic color scheme. The strong lines of the painting define the simplistic presentation of a sculptured object of beauty, which is nestled in various flora at the

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