Henri Matisse - His mastery
of the expressive language of colour and drawing...
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Henri-... was a French artist,
known for his use of colour and his fluid
and original ["style"] Matisse is commonly
regarded, along with Pablo
Picasso and Marcel
Duchamp, as one of the three artists
... responsible for significant
developments in painting and sculpture [in
the post-impressionist era]... His mastery
of the expressive language of colour and
drawing, displayed in a body of work
spanning over a half-century, won him
recognition as a leading figure in modern
art.
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Dishes and Fruit (1901), Hermitage
Museum, St.
Petersburg, Russia
"In 1901, the year in which this
work was painted, a
retrospective exhibition was held in Paris of the
work of van Gogh,
who had died in 1890. The exhibition was to have
an important
influence on young artists and the colouring in
this painting may
owe some debt to a visit to the exhibition.
Matisse's development
in this direction, however, was already
predetermined by his unique
gift for colour." |
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