Henri Matisse

HENRI MATISSE (1869-1954)

Born: December 31, 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France Died: November 3, 1954, Nice, France Periods: Fauvism, Impressionism, Modern art, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Neo-Impressionism Full name: Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse Awards: Independent Publisher Book Award for Fine Art.

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

Some art critics tend to regard Matisse as the greatest exponent of twentieth century painting, only surpassed by Picasso. That is quite debatable, although the almost pure use of color in some of his works strongly influenced many of the following avant-gardes.