Henri Matisse was a French artist, most known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known mainly as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for huge developments in painting and sculpture. My favourite pieces by Matisse would definitely have to be the cutouts he was creating in the late 1940s, its the simplicity of them which i really love but also the colours he used really helped them become great art works.
‘Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul’- Henri Matisse
Harris Scott Art 