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Matisse, Henri Émile Benoît (1869-1954), French artist, leader of the fauve group (see Fauvism), regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20th-century art, a master of the use of color and form to convey emotional expression.Matisse was born in Le Cateau in northern France on December 31, 1869. The son of a middle-class family, he studied and began to practice law. In 1890, however, while recovering slowly from an attack of appendicitis, he became intrigued by the practice of painting. In 1892, having given up his law career, he went to Paris to study art formally. His first teachers were academically trained and relatively conservative; Matisse's own early style was a conventional form of naturalism, and he made many copies after the old masters. He also studied more contemporary art, especially that of the impressionists, and he began to experiment, earning a reputation as a rebellious member of his studio classes.
Matisse's true artistic liberation, in terms of the use of color to render forms and organize spatial planes, came about first through the influence of the French painters Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne and the Dutch artist Vincent van
Gogh, whose work he studied closely beginning about 1899. Then, in 1903 and 1904, Matisse encountered the pointillist painting of Henri Edmond Cross and Paul Signac (see Pointillism). Cross and Signac were experimenting with juxtaposing small strokes (often dots or "points") of pure pigment to create the strongest visual vibration of intense color. Matisse adopted their technique and modified it repeatedly, using broader strokes. By 1905 he had produced some of the boldest color images ever created, including a striking picture of his wife, Green Stripe (Madame Matisse) (1905, Statens Museum for
Kunst, Copenhagen). The title refers to a broad stroke of brilliant green that defines Madame Matisse's brow and nose. In the same year Matisse exhibited this and similar paintings along with works by his artist companions, including André Derain and Maurice de
Vlaminck. Together, the group was dubbed les fauves (literally, "the wild beasts") because of the extremes of emotionalism in which they seemed to have indulged, their use of vivid colors, and their distortion of shapes.
While he was regarded as a leader of radicalism in the arts, Matisse was beginning to gain the approval of a number of influential critics and collectors, including the American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein and her family. Among the many important commissions he received was that of a Russian collector who requested mural panels illustrating dance and music (both completed in 1911; now in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg). Such broadly conceived themes ideally suited Matisse; they allowed him freedom of invention and play of form and expression. His images of dancers, and of human figures in general, convey expressive form first and the particular details of anatomy only secondarily. Matisse extended this principle into other fields; his bronze sculptures, like his drawings and works in several graphic media, reveal the same expressive contours seen in his paintings.
Although intellectually sophisticated, Matisse always emphasized the importance of instinct and intuition in the production of a work of art. He argued that an artist did not have complete control over color and form; instead, colors, shapes, and lines would come to dictate to the sensitive artist how they might be employed in relation to one another. He often emphasized his joy in abandoning himself to the play of the forces of color and design, and he explained the rhythmic, but distorted, forms of many of his figures in terms of the working out of a total pictorial harmony.
From the 1920s until his death, Matisse spent much time in the south of France, particularly Nice, painting local scenes with a thin, fluid application of bright color. In his old age, he was commissioned to design the decoration of the small Chapel of Saint-Marie du Rosaire at Vence (near Cannes), which he completed between 1947 and 1951. Often bedridden during his last years, he occupied himself with decoupage, creating works of brilliantly colored paper cutouts arranged casually, but with an unfailing eye for design, on a canvas surface.
Matisse died in Nice on November 3, 1954. Unlike many artists, he was internationally popular during his lifetime, enjoying the favor of collectors, art critics, and the younger generation of artists. |
1881
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October 25, Malaga, Birth of Pablo Ruiz
Picasso, son of Maria Picasso Lopez and Jose Ruiz Blasco, an artist and
teacher at San Telmo school of arts and industrial design. |
| 1891 |
Father appointed teacher at the Da
Guarda art school in La Coruna. |
| 1893 |
Pablo's debut as an artist, under his
father's Guidance. |
1895
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Father appointed to the La Lonja academy
in Barcelona. Family moves to Barcelona, spends summer in Malaga. |
1896
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Admitted to the drawing class at La
Lonja after passing examination with flying colors. |
1897
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Member of bohemian group in Barcelona;
first exhibition in the Cafe Els Quatre Gats, the group's headquarters;
first review of his work in La Vanguardia. Makes friends with Jamie
Sabartes and other young artists and intellectuals, who introduce him to
modern currents in painting. His painting Ciencia y Caridad
awarded Honorable Mention in Madrid. In the fall, admittied to painting
class at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid. |
1898
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Leaves the academy; goes for rest to
Horta de Ebro. His painting Costumbres de Aragon wins medals in
Madris and Malaga. |
1900
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Drawings published in the magazine
Joventut. First trip to paris with Casagemas; sells three sketches to
Berthe Weill; returns to Barcelona at the end of December. |
1901
1902
1903 |
 In
the spring illustrated Arte Joven Magazine. Exhibition of pastels at the
Salon Pares; Meets Max Jacob and Gustave Coquiot. Beginning of Blue
Period; now signs his works "Picasso" instead of "Pablo
Ruiz y Picasso", etc.
Exhibits 30 works at Berthe Weill's, Paris; second Exhibitions at
Vollard's.
Returns to Barcelona; shares studio with A.F. de Sato. |
1904
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Settles in paris; moves to the Bateau-lavoir,
No.13, Rue Ravignan. End of Blue Period. |
1905
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Meets Guillaume Apolliniare, Leo and
Gertrude Stein, etc. Shcukin and Leo Stein buy paintings. Meets Fernande
Olivier. In the summer, trip to Holland, at invitation of Tom
Schilperoort. Beginning of Rose Period; earliest sculptures and
engravings. |
1906
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Meets Matisse, who with the Fauves
shocked the public at the Salon d'Automne the year before. Summer in
Gosol, northern Spain, with Fernande Olivier; transition to sculptural
style. |
1907
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Meets D.H. Kahnweiler, who opens a
gallery and becomes Picasso's dealer and close friend. Meets Braque and
Derain; visits the Cezanna exhibition in the Salon d'Automne. Beginning
of Cubism with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. |
1909
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Summer at Horta de Ebro with Fernande
Olivier; first clearly Cubist landscapes. Moves to 11 Boulevard de
Clichy. First exhibition in Germany. |
1911
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First exhibition in the U.S. (NYC).
Breaking up of surfaces and volumes into facets. |
1912
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Moves to 242, Boulevard Raspail.
First exhibition in England. First collages. |
1913
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Death of Picasso's Father. Moves
to 5bis, Rue Schoelcher. Beginning of Synthetic Cubism. |
1915
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Realistic portrait drawings of
Vollard and Max Jacob. |
1917
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Design's set for Parade.
Meets Stravinsky and Picasso's future wife, Olga Koklova. |
1918
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Marries Olga Koklova. Moves to
23, Rue La Boetie. Summer in Barcelona and Biarritz |
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1921
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Birth of Paul; numerous mother-and-son
paintings. Two version's of Three Musicians and Three Women at
the Spring. Works in several styles. |
1925
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Takes part in first Surrealist
exhibition. Producese first works of unleashed violence. |
1928
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Series of small, strongly colored
paintings, with boldy simplified forms. Beginning of new period of
sculptural works. |
1932
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Retrospective exhibitions in Paris. A
new model, Marie-Therese Walter, makes her apperance in Picasso's
paintings. |
1935
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Final seperation from Olga. Birth of
daughter Maia to Marie-Therese Walter; lives at Boisegeloup where he
composes a number of poems. |
| 1936 |
Outbreak of Spanish Civil War; traveling
exhibition in Spain. |
| 1937 |
Publishes etching Sueno y Mentira de
Franco with his own satrical text. |
| 1939 |
Picasso's mother dies in Barcelona.
After outbreak of WWII returns to paris. |
1944
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Liberation of Paris; special Picasso
room in the Salon d'Automne. Joins the Communist Party. |
1947
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Birth of son Claude. Lithographic work
with Mourlot; takes up ceramics in the Madoura factory owned by the
Ramie family. |
1949
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Birth of daughter Paloma. Exhibition of
work since the war. Picasso's Dove becomes universal for Peace. |
1951
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Moves to 9, Rue Gay-Lassac.
Retrospective exhibition in Tokyo. Paints Massacre in Korea |
1953
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Retrospective exhibitions: Lyons, Rome,
Milan, Sao Paulo. Seperation from Francoise Gilot. |
1955
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Ex-Wife Olga Koklova dies. Acquires
villa, La Califorme, at Cannes. Exhibits at Musee des Artes Decoratifs
and Bibliotheque Nationale, and in Germany. |
| 1958 |
Mural for UNESCO building. Acquires
Chateau de Vauvenargues near Aix. |
1962
1963
1964
1966
1968
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 Series
on theme of Rape of the Sabines.
Series on theme of Painter and His Model.
Series on theme of Painter at His Easel.
85th birthday commemorated with three simultaneous exhibitions in Paris.
Between March and October completes 347 etchings largely on erotic
themes. After death of secretary and confidant, Jamie Sabartes, donates
series of Las Meninas to Picasso Museum in Barcelona. |
| 1969 |
Paints 140 canvases, shown next year at
Palace of the Popes, Avignon. |
| 1970 |
Donates 2,000 early oils and drawings to
Picasso Museum. |
1971
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90th birthday commemorated with
exhibition in Grande Galerie of the Louvre; becomes first living artist
so honored. |
1973
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Dies (April 8th) at his villa in Mougins.
First posthumous exhibition at Palace of the Popes. |