HENRI
MATISSE
(1869 - 1954)
Henri Matisse produced
work portraying comfort, refuge and balance. As a young man
he was a student of Odilon Redon. He also studied Manet and Cezanne'. Paul
Signor's
paintings of Saint-Tropez Bay strongly influenced Matisse's work. In
1905 as Matisse
began to work with Andre' Derain in Collioure, his work in colour broke free. His
brushstrokes during this period are much more free and casual. Many were offended
by the new style, calling the works barbaric. Matisse's biggest patron
was Sergey
Shchukin, a Moscow industrialist. It is said that two commissions in
the form of
murals for Sergey Shchukin's Trubetskoy Palace staircase are still unsettling
today.
One of them entitled 'Music' portrays five cavemen with reed flute, crude
fiddle
and handclapping is prehistoric in tone. The second, entitled 'Dance'
received it's
inspiration from fisherman and peasants performing a circle dance on the beach.
In contrast, Matisse loved patterns and in particular Islamic art. Matisse
die in 1954,
the year the first hydrogen bomb exploded on Bikini Atoll, almost
as if he didn't care to move into the modern age of technology.
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