Joy of Life (Le Bonheur de Vivre)
1905-06
Fauvism
Oil on canvas
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Merion, Pennsylvania USA,
Matisse often painted summer landscapes in the south of France during his Fauve period. Her would then work up the ideas he had there into larger compositions, such as Joy of Life, on his return to Paris. Joy of Life is the second of his imaginary compositions, taken from a landscape painted in Collioure combined with ideas drawn from Watteau, Poussin, Persian miniatures, and Japanese woodcuts.
Henri Matisse
Fauvism, Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Primitivism in Art
Born: 31 December 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
Nationality: French
Died: 3 November 1954, Nice, France
Matisse is regarded as the greatest colourist of the 20th century and rivalled Picasso in the importance of his innovations. As a Post-Impressionist and leader of the Fauvism movement he sought to use colour as the foundation for expressive, decorative, and monumental paintings. Throughout his career still life and the nude were his favoured subjects with North Africa as an important inspiration
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