How did Henri Matisse created his work?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Henri Matisse was a painter who became famous in the 1920s. He was influenced by a variety of painters, but became enamored with the Fauvist style, and lead the movement. Fauvists, like Matisse, focused on odd color combinations that did not reflect the natural coloring of the subject.

Answer 3

Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format - I would not repeat this drawing on another sheet of different dimensions, for instance on a rectangular sheet... ...a drawing must have a power of expansion which can bring to life the space which surrounds it. (Paris, 1908)

* 'Notes d'un Peintre', by Henri Matisse; as quoted in "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries", ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 410 (art quotes, Henri Matisse)

Here are three of Matisse's quotes on the act and on the process of painting.

- I try to condense the meaning of this body (of a woman, fh) by drawing its essential lines. The charm will then become less apparent at first glance, but in the long run it will begin emanate from the new image. This image at the same time will be enriched by a wider meaning, a more comprehensively human one, while the charm, being less apparent, will not be its only characteristic. It will be merely one element in the general conception of the figure. (Paris, 1908)

* 'Notes d'un Peintre', by Henri Matisse; as quoted in "Artists on Art -- from the 14th -- 20th centuries", ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 411 (art quotes, Henri Matisse)

- If upon a white canvas I jot down some sensations of blue, of green, of red - every new brush stroke diminishes the importance of the preceding ones. Suppose I set out to paint an interior… …If I paint a green near the red, if I paint in a yellow floor, there must still be between this green, this yellow, and the white of the canvas a relation that will be satisfactory to me. But these several tones mutually weaken one another. It is necessary, therefore, that the various elements that I use be so balanced that they do not destroy one another… (Paris, 1908)

* 'Notes d'un Peintre', by Henri Matisse; as quoted in "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries", ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, p. 411 (art quotes, Henri Matisse)