1. What nationality is Matisse?
He is French
2. Matisse is sometimes referred to the master of what?
He is referred to “The master of colour”
3. What did Matisse’s mum and dad do for a living?
His parents were seed merchants for a living
4. When was Matisse born?
31 December 1869.
5. What did his mum give him when he was a child and was ill with depression?
She gave him an art box
6. What year did Matisse travel to the South of France?
1905
7. What did Matisse decide to ignore?
He ignored Light, shadow, perspective and imperceptible brushwork.
8. What boundaries did Matisse push?
form, colour and the principles of the colour wheel.
9. What did Matisse try to portray in these paintings?
A portrayal of an emotional response to reality.
10. Who was the person who started buying Matisse’s work in bulk?
Sergei Shchukin, a Russian textile magnate industrialist,
11. What happened to most of Shchukin’s Matisse collection?
It went into the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
12. What was the reaction to the paintings ‘Music’ and ‘Dance’ from 1910?
They apparently were horrified and mocked the colours used for the skin. Feeling that the paintings violated everything established in art history.
13. What did the Communist dictator Stalin do to all the paintings?
Stalin confiscated the paintings from Shuhukin and then banned them altogether.
14. Who is Albert Irvin?
He is a british abstract artist.
15. What was always at the core of Matisse’s work?
The colours black and white.
16. Matisse tried to join the army for the First World War but was rejected because he was?
He was too old hence he was rejected.
17. What year did Matisse move to the city of Nice in the South of France?
Late 1917
18. What subject did he mainly paint?
Semi-naked women.
19. What year did Matisse first visit New York City?
1930
20. How old was he?
60
21. Which American Abstract Expressionist did Matisse’s Red Studio painting inspire?
It inspired Mark Rothko
22. Who was Lydia Delectorskaya?
An assistant who first helped him with his mural but was then rumoured to become his lover.
23. In 1940 was a bad year for Matisse, what two things occurred?
The Nazis invaded France and he was diagnosed with bowel cancer before undergoing life-threatening surgery that almost killed him.
24. Who came to visit Matisse and couldn’t believe that the villa was where Matisse lived?
Pablo Picasso.
25. In 1947 Matisse invented a new technique?
The paper cutout technique, where you would cut out coloured material to directly apply colour.
26. What did this technique allow Matisse to do?
It allowed him to continue creating artwork in his bed-ridden state.
27. Why were the cutouts produced?
So that he could continue working.
28. How many books were published?
250 copies were published.
29. How old was Matisse when he made The Snail?
83 years old
30. How did he describe the process of making the artwork?
He described it as “drawing with colour”.
31. What is an atheist?
A person who doesn’t believe in the existence of God(s).
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