Henri Matisse in his artist quotes on painting, Fauvism & life - free resource, France art history

Henri Matisse in quotes - the artist on his colorful painting art, Fauvism and his artistic life in France - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

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Matisse’s quotes describe the characteristics of his early painting art and the essence of French Fauvism with its focus on color & form. Matisse emphasized the necessity of using unbroken colors and colored forms - not departed by lines. This was strongly in opposite with French Cubism, which reduced the role of color in painting art.

Included in this resource is a link to to a free resource for Matisse’s complete text ‘Notes of a Painter’ - the famous Fauvist text which he wrote then for the avantgarde art-scene in France, in 1908 already.
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Some selected quotes of the French artist Henri Matisse - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face… .The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share’ - quote of Matisse from ‘Notes of a Painter’, in La Grande Revue, France, Dec. 1908

• ’To paint an autumn landscape I will not try to remember what colors suit this season, I will only be inspired by the sensation that the season gives me; the icy clearness of the sour blue sky will express the season just as well as the tonalities of the leaves…’ - Matisse’s quote from: 'Notes of a Painter, 1908

• ’A little while ago I took a nap under an olive tree, and the color harmonies I saw were so touching. It’s like a paradise you have no right to analyze, but you are a painter, for God’s sake! Nice is so beautiful! Alight so soft and tender…’ - Matisse in his letter to a friend, from Nice, 1918
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  selection of free art-resources on French artist Henri Matisse:

  • biographical notes on Henri Matisse, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Matisse, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse
  • text of Matisse: ‘Notes of a Painter’, 1908: http://www.austincc.edu/noel/writings/matisse - notes of a painter.pdf
  • images of the painting art of Henri Matisse, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Matisse
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]