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HENRI MATISSE
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Henri Matisse in 1913 |
- Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (1869-1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
- He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
- Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the
20rh-century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
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The intensity of colour in the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (French for "wild beasts"). Many of his finest works were created in the decade or so after 1906, when he developed a rigorous style that emphasized flattened forms and decorative pattern. In 1917, he relocated to a suburb of Nice on the French Riviera, and the more relaxed style of his work during the 1920s gained him critical acclaim as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.
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