FAUVISM

AUSIN, ASHLEY SHANE

HAPIN, HENDRIX JOE

INVENTOR, CYRON

SIANSON, TRISHIA
The Woman with a Hat

Year: 1905

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Artwork description:

Matisse attacked conventional portraiture

with this image of his wife. Amelie’s pose
and dress are typical for the day, but Matisse
roughly applied brilliant color across her
face, hat, dress and even the background.
This shocked his contemporaries when he
sent the picture to the 1905 Salon
d’Automne. Leo stein called it, “the nastiest
smear of paint I had ever seen”, yet he and
Gertrude bought it for the importance they
knew it would have to modern painting.
 Le Bonheur de Vivre

Year: 1905
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Artwork description:
In the central background of the piece is
a group of figures that is similar to the
group depicted in his painting The
Dance (1909 – 1910). In the picture,
there are several nude bodies of
women and men in a landscape
drenched with vivid color. The
monumental canvas was first exhibited
at the Salon des Independants of 1906.
 Portrait of Madame Matisse: The Green
Line

Year: 1905
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Artwork description:
Portrait of Madame Matisse: The Green
Line is a portrait by Henri Matisse of his
wife, Amelie Noellie Matisse – Parayre. It
is an oil painting on canvas, completed in
1913. It is named for the green band that
divides the face in half, by which Matisse
sought to produce a sense of light,
shadow and volume without using a
traditional shading.
Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra)

Year: 1907

Medium: Oil on Canvas - The Baltimore

Museum of Art, The Cone Collection

Artwork description:

Matisse was working on a sculpture, Reclining

Nude I, when he accidentally damaged the
piece. Before repairing it, he painted it in blue
against a background of palm fronds. The nude
is hard and angular, both a tribute to Cezanne
and to the sculpture Matisse saw in Algeria.
She is also a deliberate response to nudes seen
in the Paris Salon - ugly and hard rather than
soft and pretty. This was the last Matisse
painting bought by Leo and Gertrude Stein.
 The Open Window

Year: 1905
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Artwork description:
The Open Window depicts the view out
the window of his apartment in Collioure,
on the Southern coast of France. We see
sailboats on the water, as viewed from
Matisse's hotel window overlooking the
harbor. He returned frequently to the
theme of the open window in Paris and
especially during the years
in Nice and Etretat, and in his final years,
particularly during the late 1940s.
 Henri Matisse
(1869-1954)

Henri Matisse, born at Le Cateau-

Cambresis (Nord, France), was one
of the leaders of avant-garde modern
art before the First World War. He
was famous for his brilliant and
expressive use of colour, and his bold
innovations. His artistic identity
evolved slowly and with apparent
difficulty. Although he was 30 at the
beginning of the century, it was not
until 1905 that he discovered his own
vision. Thereafter he rapidly became
notorious as the leader of the group
of painters known as the Fauves. He
lived to become, in his old age,
internationally honored as a master.