Henri Matisse Research Paper

Henri Matisse is a French artist who had a six-decade career in being an artist. His artworks were traditional, however; his usage of different exaggerated emotion and brilliant colours made him an artist who became very influential in the 20th century. Matisse born and raised in France, as his family worked in the grain business. When Matisse was around his 20’s or so, he had taken up working as a legal clerk, and after that he had studied for a law degree. He then began working in a law office, as he also, at the time, had started taking up drawing classes before going to work, which only further influenced his passion for becoming an artist.
Discovering his passion for art, and wanting to become an artist, Matisse had moved to Paris for artistic related training in 1891. That is when he was exposed to post-impressionism art, and many other artists such as; Vincent van Gogh, and many others. Around this time, he had also had his artworks on display in many different exhibitions in
From that, Matisse had a large breakthrough in the years of 1904-05. He visited Saint-Tropez in southern France, and that had inspired him to paint bright and very light canvases. That is when he had created the pieces: Open Window, and Woman with a Hat. Those pieces were exhibited in the 1905 Salon d’Automne exhibition in Paris. A contemporary art critic had mentioned the bold and distorted images by artists he called “fauves” or “wild beasts”. This became a painting style that Matisse had continued to do, he emphasized the emotional power of lines, strong brushwork and acid-bright colours in his works such as: “The Joy of Life”. Matisse had also made sculptures and drawings that were related to his paintings, pretty much always repeating and simplifying their