Matisse engaged in legal affairs in his early years, and changed to painting at the age of 23. He studied under bouguereau in Julian Academy of Fine Arts, and then entered the studio of symbolic painter Morrow. Moreau's subjective views on color have a great influence on Matisse. Moreau believes that "the beautiful tone can't be obtained from copying nature, and the color of painting must be obtained by thinking, imagination and dreams". After he left school, he was influenced by Sinek's stippling school. At the same time, he absorbed the strengths of Van Gogh and Gauguin, borrowed from black sculpture and oriental decorative art, and showed a complete break with traditional art. His works reflect the aesthetic concept of Fauvism: bold colors, concise modeling, harmonious composition and strong decoration, which forms his unique painting style-that is, the familiar picture is concise and clear, omitting redundant details, and the artistic image of the picture is composed of simple lines and colors.
In p>198, Matisse publicly expressed his artistic concept. He said: Slave reproduction of nature ... The choice of color is not based on science. I have no preconceived use of color, and colors come to me completely instinctively. He also said: the art I dream of is full of balance, purity and silence, and there is no disturbing and eye-catching theme. An art is a calming means for every spiritual worker, and a spiritual comfort means to iron his mind; For them, it means getting peace from daily hard work and work. He called this art the art of easy chair.
After Fauvism disappeared, Matisse continued his artistic exploration. He used sculpture to study the human body, and he created about 7 sculptures in his life. Before the 192s, he used various free methods to create a new painting space, and experienced a short period of cubism, but he never had a fragmented image. He studied how to make objects geometric and simplified. On the premise of not changing his point of view, he arranged the bright colors of large blocks abstractly to achieve the effect of both decoration and spatial depth.
In his later years, Matisse experimented with color relations through color paper-cutting. His art is extremely concise and decorative. However, his greatness lies in transcending the narrow decorative world, thus creating the concept of "big decorative art" Model Caroline Yolao gave birth to a daughter for Matisse in 1894 and named her Margaret. Matisse married Emily on January 1th, 1898. Together, they raised Margaret and gave birth to two more sons, Jean, born in 1899, and Pierre, born in 19. Margaret and Emily often serve as models for Matisse's paintings. Matisse loves his daughter Margaret very much and often becomes the protagonist in Matisse's paintings. Margaret later married the historian and philosopher Georges Duthuit.
Later, Matisse took camille pissarro's advice and went to London to study joseph mallord william turner's paintings. He worked with Albert Ma Erkai, another French painter, and later met Andre Deland and others.