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Written by MMaxi in Henri Matisse 1869-1954 on 29 May 2007 à 01:04In 1905 Matisse and his associates, notably André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, caused a sensation at the Salon d'Automne with their brilliantly coloured, raw-factured canvases which earned them the label 'Fauves' (wild beasts). Matisse, however, also attracted his first patrons, the Stein...
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Written by MMaxi in Henri Matisse 1869-1954 on 28 May 2007 à 18:22Nu Bleau ( Souvenir de Biskra ) 1906 Biskra Arabic: biskra Biskra City and oasis in north-eastern Algeria with 190,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), at the northern edge of the Sahara. Biskra is the centre of the Zab group of oases located in the depression between the Aurès...
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Written by MMaxi in Henri Matisse 1869-1954 on 26 May 2007 à 00:23"The new Matisses, seen in the autumn of 1905, were very shocking indeed. Even their handful of defenders were uncertain about them, while their detractors thought them barbaric. Particularly offensive was his use of this discordant colour in the familiar form of the salon portrait - even though...
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Written by MMaxi in Henri Matisse 1869-1954 on 25 May 2007 à 14:00La carrière d'Henri Matisse se laisse diviser en trois périodes: de ses débuts à la Première Guerre Mondiale, de la fin de la Première Guerre Mondiale à la fin de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, de 1945 à sa mort en 1954. À la première période correspond celle du peintre d'avant-garde,...
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Written by MMaxi in Henri Matisse 1869-1954 on 25 May 2007 à 13:49...practitioners. Influenced by van Gogh and working with Valminck in 1904 he felt that the impressionists had disintegrated their work into dots excessively. Instead, he chose to use wide, choppy brush strokes of pure color. In 1905, he worked with Matisse to bring the technique to maturity. MMaxi
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