http://www.henri-matisse.net/
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=3832
http://www.biography.com/people/henri-matisse-9402564
- His work was grounded in tradition - and in a much less restless and ironic approach to it than Picasso's.
- Matisse's work utterly refutes the notion that the great discoveries of modernism were made by violently rejecting the past.
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- principal protagonist of Fauvism, the first avant-garde movement at the turn of the century
- French painter, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, designer and writer.
http://www.biography.com/people/henri-matisse-9402564
- Matisse had come under the more progressive influence of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, who painted in a “Pointillist” style with small dots of color rather than full brushstrokes.his revolutionary use of brilliant color and exaggerated form to express emotion made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
- his revolutionary use of brilliant color and exaggerated form to express emotion made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.