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Fauvism and Henri Matisse cut outs

We have been learning about Fauvism And the artists involved. It was produced by a group of artists from 1905 to 1910, it uses strong contrasting colours and heavy brushwork. When critic Louis Vauxcelles saw the work of Henri Matisse and Andre Derain he said there work was like les fauves (‘the wild beasts’) which coined the name fauvism. We looked at some of the work and expressed our feelings towards the work, I really liked the vibrancy of the work and the way colours were used to express emotion and feeling but it did not excite me as much as matisse's cutouts, which we looked at next. These amazing peices of work were in keeping with the bright contrasting colours but were cut out from paper free hand. We were then told to make our own in any theme we wanted. I wanted to do a sun and stars theme with fire and I wanted to add a female cut out to keep a Matisse feel to it. 






This was a lot harder to accomplish than I first thought, I felt it was a lot like a collage but when I was trying to keep a Matisse feel to the work I struggled a bit. I feel I can appreciate his work more now.

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  1. The world according to hambone14 November 2015 at 09:14

    Cat, when I was doing your course we were shown a video about Matisse and how he work's, if you interested in his technique and you've not already seen it you should ask.

    I liked his scissors. 😉

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    1. Catrina Barquist17 November 2015 at 12:34

      i was told a little about his scissors! it was very interesting, we didnt get much time on this but i think i will ask if we have time to watch it if not you could link me?

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