1. Matisse Style Portrait

2. Henri Matisse
"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject-matter…a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

3. Henri Matisse
France
Henri Matisse went to school at the College de Saint Quentin, before moving to Paris to study law.
In 1889, he returned to Saint-Quentin as a law clerk, though he found the job tedious and complained of anxiety. Later that year he contracted appendicitis and spent several months at home recovering.
During that time, at the age of 20, he discovered the welcome isolation and freedom of painting.

4. Henri Matisse
Time Period:1869 – 1954
Style: Abstract
Media: Paint
Technique: Painting

5. Cultural influences
Matisse was heavily influenced by art from other cultures. Having seen several exhibitions of Asian art, and having traveled to North Africa, he incorporated some of the decorative qualities of Islamic art, the angularity of African sculpture, and the flatness of Japanese prints into his own style.

6. Style characteristics
Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the greatest colorist of the twentieth century
Rather than using modeling or shading to lend volume and structure to his pictures, Matisse used contrasting areas of … color.
His art was important in endorsing the value of decoration in modern art.
His use of color and pattern is often deliberately disorientating and unsettling.

7. Background knowledge Vocabulary:
Portrait: A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.
Stylized: The less a work of art resembles something in the physical world, the more stylized it is; an artificial style that does not look natural or real, but that is still pleasant to look at
Contrast: Refers to the differences in values, colors, and other art elements. Contrast makes art exciting and interesting.

8. Background knowledge Media Oil Pastels
Layering: pastels get their painterly quality from applying pastels thickly to the paper. Layering cclors over each other allows for blending, creating new colors, and a more paint like quality
Blending: can be achieve by layering pastels and smearing with the top color, and/or blending with fingers or cotton balls or swabs.
Clogging: When too much pastel is on the paper surface, it is so think to no more pastel can stick, so new layers just slide around rather than sticking. Experiment with the paper to see how much pastel it can take. You want enough to blend and get the smooth paint look, but not enough to clog it.

9. create Pick a person to draw Draw out the basic contours
Close up of a celebrity, family member, friend, self-portrait, or generic picture
Draw out the basic contours
No shading, line only
Decide upon the colors you will use to create CONTRAST
Why are you choosing those colors?
Using proper pastel application techniques, add color
Layering, Blending
Use Matisse Style
Choppy, unrealistic colors, heavy outlines, simplified shapes, but still resembling the subject

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12. Kick it up a notch Matisse was also fascinated with patterns
His patterns often helped to create the high degree of contrast in his work