Art Lesson-3

1. Art Lesson-3

2. Matisse, Master of Color Matisse was born on 31 December 1869. He was from France. He is a qualified lawyer. He started painting while recovering from appendicitis.

3. He used energetic paint strokes, and unnatural colors. Madame Matisse’s dress,skin, and feathered hat as well as the background are all portrayed with unrealistic shades of vivid colors applied with active brushwork. When the Woman with the Hat was first exhibited, critics did not like it. Few critics of the time could comprehend why Matisse would chose to paint his wife’s portrait with blotches of unrealistic and strong colors. Today, The Woman with a Hat is a recognized masterpiece of modern art!! The Woman with the Hat

4. At the end of his life, Matisse would paint something and then he would be dissatisfied at the end of the working day, so he would erase everything and he would repaint it, and then he would erase again. Sometimes he would paint and erase the same painting 30 times, until he would get it almost automatically – until his hands could paint without having to think, and then that’s when he thought the painting was perfect, fresh.

6. The Pineapple

7. Tristesse du Roi

8. Beasts of the sea

9. Jazz, Le Lagon, Planche XVIII

10. Now it is your turn to try it.