Henri Matisse quiz
When Henri Matisse discovered his love for art when he was having surgery because he got appendicitis. His mother had gotten him a paint box to pass the time and that is what lead to his career.
His first art teacher told that he would never learn to draw. At the beginning he created still-lifes and landscapes then was starting to see the results of his difficult work.
At the Salon D’Automne exhibit his artwork the woman in the hat was bought by an american writer and modern art collector called Gertrude stein this brought sudden fame.
The paintings were expressive without much consideration to the natural colours of the theme.
Matisse started making paper collages. They were usually big pictures they were called gouaches decoupes. He named this technique “painting with scissors”