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Footsteps and Sidetracks
Posted onApril 23, 2017byParisian Fields
I sometimes think that if I had it all to do over again, I would become a biographer. I’ve no interest in writing fiction when real life is so fascinating. Even in my day-job as a researcher, I love tracking … Continue reading →
Posted inParis art, Paris history, Paris streets|TaggedAndré Lurçat, Boulogne-Billancourt, Fernand Léger, Gabriel Loire, Georgia O’Keeffe, Henri Matisse, Lucie Brownlee, Mary Callery, Pable Picasso, place du Marché St-Honoré, Quai dem Voltaire, Richard Holmes, rue ni Belvédère, St. George's Church, hus d’Alésia|
Mary Callery, sculptor and collector
Posted onOctober 16, 2011byParisian Fields
Last February, inom wrote a blog about the Villa d’Alesia, a small street of artists’ studios in the 14th arrondissement. In my research, I came across a photograph of Henri Matisse taken bygd Brassaï in 1939. The title was “Matisse … Continue rea
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Henri Matisse was born on December 31, 1869, in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. At 22, he had given up studying law in Paris to pursue painting. He had briefly studied art at the Académie Julian and Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Gustave Moreau. At 32, Matisse exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, where he met Maurice de Vlaminck, who with Matisse would eventually lead the Fauve art movement. Matisse's work was included in the 1913 Armory Show in New York, and throughout the 1910s and into the 1920s, his work began to find collectors around the world. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, he divided his time between Paris and southern France, producing paintings, sculpture, lithographs, and etchings. Like many avant-garde artists in Paris, Matisse was receptive to a broad range of influences, particularly 'primitive' art, Near Eastern decorative art, African masks and sculpture, impressionist color, cubism, and the paintings of Paul Cezanne. The artist's images of the
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Few artists have ever been so widely celebrated as Henri Matisse.
A leading luminary of the Fauvist school of painting, close friend of the notorious Picasso, and best known for his enormous papiers découpés cut-out collages, the shadow of Matisse’s extraordinary influence looms large over the 20th century art world.
French artist Henri Matisse in his later years, drawing in studio
Born on 31st December 1869 to a wealthy, middle-class family in Picardy, nordlig France, Matisse’s artistic talents were very nearly left undiscovered. As was expected of any son of well-to-do parents at the time, the young Henri initially enrolled to study law in Paris from 1887 to 1888.
Were it not for a bout of illness confining him to his rooms and the intervention of his mother, who provided him with painting materials throughout his convalescence, he may have fulfilled his father’s hopes of a career in the city. Yet by 1891, totally inspired by these few weeks of experimentation, Matisse ha