art lessons about matisse

The Dessert: Harmony in Red, 1908, 
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Henri Matisse. 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Art Lesson Plans About Matisse:

• MatisseInspired “Dancers” Paper Art Lessons
• HenriMatisse Multimedia
• A Paper-CutCollage Lesson Plan
• MatisseInspired Collages in Grade Three
• Meet Matisse
• Matisseinspired window pictures with second grade
• We LoveMatisse

More Links About Matisse:

• The Dance II. 1932. The Barnes Foundation, Merion Station
• Musée Matisse Nice
• Henri Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art
• Henri Matisse Gallery at MuseumSyndicate
• Artchive
• Matisse-Picasso
• Dance (I) in the MoMA Online Collection
• The Morozov-Shchukin collections
• Flam, Jack. Matisse in the Cone Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001 ISBN 0-912298-73-1
• Matisse at Statens Museum for Kunst ("The Danish National Gallery")
• Henri Matisse: Life and Work 500 hi-res images
• Artists Rights Society, Matisse's U.S. Copyright Representatives
• Hillary Spurling, Matisse's pajamas, online article
• The nude in Matisse
• Union List of Artist Names, Getty Vocabularies. ULAN Full Record Display for Henri Matisse. Getty Vocabulary Program, Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, California.
• Matisse and Rodin
• Matisse's ‘Bathers by the River’ – interactive slideshow by The New York Times
• Matisse: Radical Invention NPR, audio