interiors by Matisse
Henri Matisse was born in Le Cateau, France in 1869. He was the leader of a movement entitled Fauvism. In the book called Matisse (a collection of color plates compiled by editor Jose Maria Faerna), he describes the artists of this movement as, “[developing] a very free style of painting, using vibrant, arbitrary color – that is to say color independent from the actual hue of the object represented in the picture.” (5) This idea of using color that was nonrepresentative was very radical during this time. In fact, the term fauve was French for “wild beast”. The revolutionary artists liked the term so much that they accepted it as their identification (Wilenski, 160). The Fauves used color in softer, but bright hues. This was evident in Matisse’s twentieth century genre painting Interior at Nice. Something that was not as evident, however, was the state of the world at this time. Despite the conflict and disorder of World War I, Matisse created works of art that conve!
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Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 709
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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