1. What nationality is Matisse?
French
2. Matisse is sometimes referred to the master of what?
Master of colour
3. What did Matisse’s mum and dad do for a living?
seed merchants
4. When was Matisse born?
1869 on the 31st of December.
5. What did his mum give him when he was a child and was ill with depression?
Henri’s mum got him an art box.
6. What year did Matisse travel to the South of France?
age 36 in 1905
7. What did Matisse decide to ignore?
light, shadow, perspective and brushwork.
8. What boundaries did Matisse push?
colour, form and principle of the colour wheel.
9. What did Matisse try to portray in these paintings?
an emotional response to reality
10. Who was the person who started buying Matisse’s work in bulk?
Sergei Shchukin
11. What happened to most of Shchukin’s Matisse collection?
The collection he bought ended up in Hermitage Museum located in St. Petersburg
12. What was the reaction to the paintings ‘Music’ and ‘Dance’ from 1910?
There was backlash for the use of colour on the people in the picture this was mocked and seen as a violation.
13. What did the Communist dictator Stalin do to all the paintings?
Stalin confiscated the paintings and ultimately banned them
14. Who is Albert Irvin?
He is an English abstract artist who is a specialist is Expressionism abstract.
15. What was always at the core of Matisse’s work?
Black and white.
16. Matisse tried to join the army for the First World War but was rejected because he was?
He was deemed to old too fight.
17. What year did Matisse move to the city of Nice in the South of France?
age 48 in 1917
18. What subject did he mainly paint?
Semi nude women.
19. What year did Matisse first visit New York City?
in 1930
20. How old was he?
age 61
21. Which American Abstract Expressionist did Matisse’s Red Studio painting inspire?22. Who was Lydia Delectorskaya?
An assistant that first helped him with his mural but was rumoured to become his lover.
23. In 1940 was a bad year for Matisse, what two things occurred?
He was almost killed by a Nazi in ww2 which led to life threatening surgery. He was also diagnosed with Bowel cancer.
24. Who came to visit Matisse and couldn’t believe that the villa was where Matisse lived?
Pablo Picasso
25. In 1947 Matisse invented a new technique?
The paper cut out technique.
26. What did this technique allowed Matisse to do?
it allowed you tocut out coloured material to directly apply colour.
27. Why were the cut outs produced?
to help him to continue working.
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