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Birth name Henri Matisse
Born 31 December 1869
Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Died 3 November 1954
(aged 84)
Nice, France
Nationality French
Field painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, collage
Movement Fauvism, Modernism
Works Woman with a Hat (Madame Matisse), 1905
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Matisse grew up in Bohain-en-Vermandois.In 1887 he went to Paris to study law, Initially he painted still-lifes and landscapes in the traditional Flemish style, Introduced to Impressionism and to the work of Van Gogh (who had been a good friend of Russell but was completely unknown at the time). Matisse's style changed completely, and he would later say "Russell was my teacher, and Russell explained colour theory to me.
Influenced by the works of the post-Impressionists Paul Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Paul Signac, and also by Japanese art,he made colour a crucial element of his paintings. Many of his paintings from 1899 to 1905 make use of a pointillist technique .
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