![]() It depicts a half-length portrait of his wife, Amelie, in vivid, unnatural colors and rough, fluid brushstrokes. Woman with a Hat is characteristic of Matisse’s Fauvist style. The collective works of Matisse and the other exhibiting artists were labelled by critics ‘Les Fauves’, meaning the wild beasts, due to the seemingly untamed, unruly colors that filled the canvases. Woman with a Hat was first exhibited at the 1905 Salon d’Automne in Paris, an exhibition that was surrounded by controversy as Matisse and his contemporaries’ avant-garde style was met with much criticism. Woman with a Hat marks a moment of stylistic transition in Matisse’s oeuvre, from a more classical controlled style towards his characteristic expressive style. Matisse died of a heart attack in 1954, aged 84. In 1948, Matisse applied this technique to the design of the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence. His most famous cut-out work was the book Jazz, created in 1943. He began to create large scale paper cut-out collages with the help of his assistants. After surgery for abdominal cancer in 1941, Matisse was left unable to walk or stand which significantly hindered his creative process. This period of Matisse’s work is characterized by the theme of the oriental odalisque. In 1917, Matisse moved to the French Riviera were his style softened, in line with the Post-War Neoclassical trend. Despite dividing opinions at the time, today most of what are considered to be Matisse’s great masterpieces were painted during his Fauvist period. At the Armory Show in Chicago in 1913, Matisse’s painting Nu bleu II was burned. The Fauvist movement was controversial and was met with strong reactions. In the same year he exhibited with the Fauves at the Salon d’Automne. In 1905, he traveled to the South to work with Derain in Collioure and his work began to embrace flat shapes, controlled lines and a more fluid brushstroke. As he developed this neo-impressionist, expressive style, Matisse’s success grew and his reputation spread. Matisse was one of the leaders of the Fauvist movement alongside André Derain. He was also an avid collector of other artists’ works and his personal collection included pieces by Rodin, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cezanne. ![]() The same year as his marriage, Matisse traveled to London and Corsica and worked profusely. Matisse had a daughter with his model Caroline Joblau in 1894 and in 1898 he married Amelie Noelie Parayre with whom he raised Marguerite and their own two sons. In 1896 Matisse, an unknown student at the time, was introduced to Impressionism and the work of Van Gogh, by the Australian painter John Russell, who also taught him about color theory which had a profound effect on the development of Matisse’s style. His early works were traditional still lifes, influenced by a wide range of artists, from Manet to Chardin. Matisse studied at the Academie Julian in Paris from 1891 and was a student of Bouguereau and Moreau.
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