Henri Matisse's Life And Accomplishments

According to biography.com Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869 in Le Cateau in France. He was born to a family who worked in the grain business. Starting off as a young man Matisse worked as a legal clerk then pursued a degree in law in Paris from 1887-1889. When he returned to Saint-Quentin he received an occupation in a law office. Although he already had a steady occupation he began to take drawing classes every morning before work. Matisse was suffering from an illness at 21 years old and throughout that time he began painting. This eventually led to Matisse’s calling as an artist. To pursue the title of a great artist Matisse moved to Paris in 1891 to seek more training. Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts were famous art schools that “taught according to the academic method.” Matisse was taught by all the well known famous artists from these schools. These kinds of schools worked a lot with live models and practicing works of “Old Masters”, for Matisse those would be the works of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne as he was already introduced to their forms of art in Paris. While in Paris in the mid 1890s Matisse began to show his artwork to large group exhibitionists in Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts where people …show more content…
He presented these two paintings in the 1905 Salon d’Automne exhibition in Paris. Art critics soon gave Matisse’s distorted paintings “fauves” or “wild beasts.” His style of art was soon known as Fauvism. Matisse continued with this style of sinuous lines and bright vivid colors to create these canvas and landscape-like paintings. He used a lot of nude women for inspiration as well. Later on within the first decade of the century Matisse began to create sculptures that resembled and related to his paint style as