1. Matisse Picasso Toward Abstraction:
The Modernist Revolution – 1914
‘The Avant Garde’
Matisse Picasso
Liberating color Liberating form in space
Fauvism Cubism

2. Fauvism
‘C'est Donatello dans la cage aux fauves!’ -- Louis Vauxcelles, Salon d'Automne, 1905.
expressive use of color
bold fragmented application of color
color as emotion
pure, brilliant color, applied straight from the paint tubes
in an aggressive, direct manner to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas.

3. André Dérain Mountains at Collioure, 1905, o/c, 32 x 39”
long strokes of pure color
“sticks of dynamite”
“deliberate disharmonies”
Mountains at Collioure, 1905, o/c, 32 x 39” 3

5. Derain, The Dance, 1905

6. Derain, Charing Cross, 1906
Derain, London Bridge, 1906

7. Maurice de Vlaminck, Restaurant at Bougival, 1906

8. Henri Matisse 1869-1951 “I hear colors sing”
“When I put a green, it is not grass.
When I put a blue, it is not the sky.”
"Fauve painting is not everything,
but it is the foundation of everything."

9. Matisse, Notre Dame in late Afternoon, 1902

10. Matisse, Luxe, calm et volupte, 1904-5

11. Matisse, Open Window, 1905

12. Henri Matisse Woman with a Hat, autumn 1905 Oil on canvas;
31 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.

13. Matisse
Portrait of Madame Matisse/The Green Stripe
1905
Oil and tempera on canvas 15 x 12”

14. Matisse
Le Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life), , o/c, 69 x 94” 14

15. Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, 1905
Poussin, Bacchanalia, 1630

16. Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, 1905
Ingres, Turkish Bath, 1862

17. Matisse, Bonheur de Vivre, 1905
Ingres, Golden Age, 1862

18. Matisse Blue Nude/Souvenir of Biskra 1907
36 1/4 x 55 1/8 in. (92.1 x cm)
In The colonial harem by Malek Alloula
Scenes and Types: Reclining Odalisque 

19. Matisse, Blue Nude/Souvenir of Biskra, 1907

20. Vlaminck, Reclining Nude, 1906
Matisse, Blue Nude, Souvenir of Biskra, 1907

21. Reclining Nude I (Aurora)
Henri Matisse
Reclining Nude I (Aurora)
1907
bronze; 13 9/16 x 19 5/8 x 11 in

22. Matisse Harmony in Red, 1908, 69 x 85”
Fluid line
Flat color
Curvilinear (arabesques)
Biomorphic forms
Matisse Harmony in Red, 1908, 69 x 85” 22

23. Matisse, The Dinner Table, 1896
Matisse, Harmony in Red, 1908

24. Matisse, Bathers with a Turtle, 1908

25. Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
and Matisse's Bathers with a Turtle (1908)

26. Matisse, Dance, (first version) 1909

27. Matisse, Dance II, 1910

28. Matisse, Music, 1909

29. Matisse, The Conversation, 1909

30. Henri Matisse. Spanish Still Life (Seville II). 1911

31. Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911, o/c, 71 x 86”
(self-sufficiency of painting; self referentiality;
a world unto itself, nourishing itself from within)
Henri Matisse, The Red Studio, 1911, o/c, 71 x 86” 31

32. Henri Matisse. The Piano Lesson. 1916. Oil on canvas
8' 1/2" x 6' 11 3/4"

33. Odalisques by Matisse

35. Matisse, JAZZ, 1947

37. Matisse, Chapel, 1940-s & 50’s