Research Paper On Henri Matisse

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A little boy was raised in Bohain-en-Vermandois, France but moved to Pairs to study law. In 1989, he went back to Saint-Quentin to work as a law clerk. Henri Matisse came down with appendicitis and was bed-ridden for a couple months. To keep Henri busy his mom bought him a box of art supplies to keep him entertained while he was bed-ridden. Henri took off with it he decided right then and there what he wanted to do when he saw all those pretty colors. His mother was the first person to give him advise when he is creating art, she said, ”Now Henri do not listen to the “rules” of art but listen to your emotions. When he was over his illness Henri moved to Pair to study art at the Academie Julian, were he began studies with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau. Matisse early style is more of a conventional accept to naturalism, he also has an interest in contemporary art more from the impressionist though. He later got married and had children with his with Amelie Noelie Parayre. When he was in a financial bind Matisse put 5 painting’s in the
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Amelie wore a French Bourgeoisie: with an elaborate top hat, and a gloved hand holding a …show more content…
She really looked like she the center of attention and all the colors around her made her really stick out. He used vibrant colors he used on her face, hat, dress and background, and he also used some unnatural colors. You can tell there is impulsive brush strokes an advance of colorist tradition of impressionists. There are strokes of solid color which was combined with curvilinear planes of flat color. In the canvas there are splotches and patches of arbitrary colors as well. You can tell he used a lot of emotion when he was doing the portrait of his

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