Information on Matisse's art and style:
1. Leader of the Fauvism Movement. The movement expressed emotion through painting ordinary people/things in unrealistic colors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse
2. Cut outs/paper colleges-While bed ridden Matisse used worked with paper cut outs and eventually created huge works of art by putting them together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse
3. Sculpting-Matisse created morphed/twisted sculptures of people and objects
http://www.henri-matisse.net/sculpture.html
4. Drawings-He often created erotic drawings of women using charcoal, pencil, or crayon.
http://www.henri-matisse.net/drawings.html
5. French Poetry-Matisse created dozens of collections of French poetry that I would write before painting.
http://www.henri-matisse.net/drawings.html
6. Modernism-He used bright colors, distorted shapes, and everything in-between to express how he was feeling at the moment.
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-matisse-henri.htm
1. Leader of the Fauvism Movement. The movement expressed emotion through painting ordinary people/things in unrealistic colors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse
2. Cut outs/paper colleges-While bed ridden Matisse used worked with paper cut outs and eventually created huge works of art by putting them together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse
3. Sculpting-Matisse created morphed/twisted sculptures of people and objects
http://www.henri-matisse.net/sculpture.html
4. Drawings-He often created erotic drawings of women using charcoal, pencil, or crayon.
http://www.henri-matisse.net/drawings.html
5. French Poetry-Matisse created dozens of collections of French poetry that I would write before painting.
http://www.henri-matisse.net/drawings.html
6. Modernism-He used bright colors, distorted shapes, and everything in-between to express how he was feeling at the moment.
http://www.theartstory.org/artist-matisse-henri.htm