Henri Matisse: paintings and works

There are moments in life when great artists open their careers in art quite accidentally, so to speak, by the will of fate. Here, the famous French artist-fonist Henri Matisse, whose paintings produce an original artistic impression on numerous admirers of his work, began to draw quite by accident. Everything happened after a banal appendicitis attack, which hid the young assistant attorney Henri to the operation in the hospital. And his mother, who taught the future genius of painting an artistic taste since childhood, gave Matisse a box of paints and brushes so that he would not get bored in the ward.

The beginning of the way

And soon Henry is already studying in Paris with the artist Moro in the School of Arts. There he met with the meter Signyak and some novice artists. And later Henri Matisse, whose paintings , exhibited at the Autumn Salon, together with the paintings of Derain, Vlaminck, Marquet, Rouault, critics called "savagery", becomes one of the founders of the new artistic trend - Fauvism (in French - this word means "wild"). . And fans of painting begin to like the work of the artist.

Henri Matisse. Paintings

Perhaps one of the most famous paintings of the artist is the canvas "Dance". There are two variations. The first - in the Hermitage, the second - in the New York Museum of Art. Both original paintings were drawn by Henri Matisse. At first, the pictures were not understood and ridiculed by critics. One of them was ordered and painted for the Moscow house Shchukin in 1910. It is characteristic that the canvas is written in red, blue, green - only in three colors.

Artist Henri Matisse

Pictures with the names "Woman in a Green Hat", "Window", "Raised Knee", "Italian", "Family Portrait" and many others are an invaluable heritage of the artist. So in the painting "Red Fish" (1911) shows a magical world of colors and images, which instantly transmitted to the viewer. By the way, the painter returned to this image repeatedly, and there are several variations of the work.