Henry Émile Benoiôt Matisse (1869-1954)
Benoiot Matisse was an exponent of the French painting movement of Fauvism, which developed between 1898 and 1908, with the aim to give shape and incisiveness to pure colour and make it an evocative and expressive autonomous value. Fauvism can be considered the first French contribution to Expressionism.
Colour dominates every creation: bright, harsh, vital, marked and wild. Wild as les fauves, the wild beasts. The post-impressionists Gaugin and Van Gogh can be considered forerunners and inspirers of this painting current.
Fauvism movement flew into Expressionism, were the reproduced reality became subjective and introspective vision of the artist.
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“...nice blue, beautiful red, yellow, matters which touch the sensuous side of men. This is the starting point of Fauves: the bravery to come back to the purity of expressive means.”
(H. Matisse)
Portrait 1.
H. Matisse, La stanza rossa, 1908, S. Pietroburgo, Ermitage.
Portrait 2.
H. Matisse, Citrons et saxifrages, 1943, Zurigo, Galleria Rosengart
The yellow lemon is one on the main subject of Matisse’s portrait.
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