Matisse

HENRI MATISSE - FRENCH

- Has been call the greatest painter of the 20th century. Let's look at some of his paintings (look at calendar)

-Before we look at some of his paintings let's think about something, What makes someone a good artist?

-best known for his use of color. He loved music, was a fine violinist. In his work he tried to capture "musical movement of beauty" with lines, form, colors, and space.

- He was admired for "a rhythmic line."
-After years and years of hard work & experience in painting, Henri Matisse decided to make his artwork using paper cutouts (look at wheelchair picture)

-He said he would:
* study something or hold in his hand
* pictue "purified image" in his mind
* sometimes practice drawing it in the air
* let scissors "carve" throught the color, never clip, to "liberate" the image from the paper
* "scissors can acquire more feeling for a line than pencil or charcoal."
* "cutting straight into color reminds him of the direct carving of a sculpture"
* then pin shapes to his walls and arrange -sometimes a year -look at pictures -
* move around until reaching "musical movement of the whole combination"
* sometimes used smaller cutouts like building blocks forming something larger, ground, sky, etc.

-You are going to get to liberate your own images from color, and create "musical movement" through "decorative oraganization"
- If you want put name of your work on the back and we'll see if we can guess.