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Bring some colorful flowers into your life by “There are drawing a beautiful still life or cut-out collage inspired by Henri Matisse. always flowers

Take a picture of your work and share it with for those who SUAG on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter want to see using the hashtag #SUAGkids for a chance to be featured. them."

–Henri Matisse

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Fauvism is an art movement and a style of painting known for its special use of color that was invented in Paris in the early 1900s. Henri Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure. At first, the new style of painting was not liked very much byart critic Louis Vauxcelles. In his review in Gil Blas, Vauxcelles sarcastically remarked, "Donatello aumilieu des fauves” which is French for “Donatello surrounded by wild beasts!” The term Fauvesre mained and would be used to describe this style of painting. Its artists would form a small group known as les Fauves.

The Fauvist style is characterized by a wild use of unnatural colors where colors are separated from their usual, representational roles as seen in the Woman with a Hat (Femme au chapeau), 1905 by Henri Matisse real world. This play with color gives new emotional Bouquet, Vase with two handles, 1907 by Henri Matisse meaning reds, greens and every hue in between, Green Stripe, 1905 by Henri Matisse creating a strong, unified work that seems flat on the canvas. MAY 2020 SALISBURY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES ACTIVITY 1

CAN YOU COLOR LIKE A FAUVIST, A WILD BEAST?! EXPERIMENT AND PLAY WITH BOLD COLORS.

WHAT DO I NEED? Drawing paper, drawing or painting supplies.

DIRECTIONS:

Draw simple flowers using spirals and letters.

Use bright colors that are unrealistic for the flowers, to color like a Fauvist.

ROSE: TULIP:

1.Draw a controlled spiral using 1.Draw the letter “U”

your dominant hand, the one you 2.Draw the letter “w” connecting the two use to write. sides of the “U” 2.SWITCH hands and draw a loose spiral traced around the controlled spiral. Overlapping the spirals help create the organic look of petals. MAY 2020 SALISBURY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES ACTIVITY 2

HOW TO SET UP A MATISSE INSPIRED STILL LIFE

DIRECTIONS: WHAT DO I NEED? The elements of art that you will use to Paper, drawing or painting create your Still Life are LINES, SHAPES, supplies. TEXTURE and COLOR.

1.Draw a vase. 2. Draw stems for the flowers. 3. Draw the tulips.

4. Draw the roses. 5. Draw the leaves. 6. Draw a table.

7. Draw the room lines. 8. Draw bold colored 9. Color with crayons for patterns on the wall. texture. MAY 2020 SALISBURY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES ACTIVITY 3 CUT-OUT COLLAGE ACTIVITY

La perruche et la sirene (The perruche and the mermaid ) 1952 - by Henri Matisse

DIRECTIONS: Imagine a place, an activity or a person you may miss because you have to stay home. Create an uplifting collage to remind yourself of the person, place or thing that makes you happy, like Matisse did when he created T he Swimming Pool.

WHAT DO I NEED?

Scissors, glue stick, white paper, construction paper, colored paper*

*Matisse would have large sheets of white paper painted a single color.

CUT-OUT COLLAGE EXAMPLE DRAWING WITH SCISSORS When health complications caused Matisse to no longer leave his home, he chose to use paper to help him create large, colorful compositions and installations at home. Matisse decided that if he could not make it to the places he wanted to go then he would create his very own. He would cut and lay out paper on the floor to create the sense of a garden and Matisse’s first and only self- contained, site-specific cut-out The Swimming Pool was in his living room. He cut his own divers, swimmers, and sea creatures out of paper painted in an ultramarine blue. The blue forms were pinned on the white paper, which helped define the aquatic ballet of bodies, splashing water, and light. Matisse did not let his physical limitations limit his imagination and turned cut paper into innovative masterpieces. Beach Days by Elena Taylor

F UN MARYLAND MATISSE FACT! To see the largest collection in the world of Henri Matisse’s masterpieces you can visit the Baltimore Museum of Art when they open back up!

Collected by Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone during the early to mid The museum features more than 90,000 art works from various eras, with the largest 20th Century, the Cone Collection is one of the most important art collections collection of Matisse’s masterpieces in the world. The famous Cone Collection is perhaps because it is the largest archive of Matisse’s masterpieces in the world. The the museum’s most significant exhibition. During the early 20th century, sisters Claribe Cone Collection of Modern Art is considered the crown jewel of the Baltimore land Etta Cone visited Paris studios of both Matisse and Picasso, and set out to acquire an Museum of Art, featuring works by Matisse, Degas, Pissarro, Picasso, and exceptional collection of works by the renowned artists. Among them is Matisse’s world Courbet. This large collection came to the BMA upon Etta Cone’s death in famous painting Large Reclining Nude (1935) and the monumental Large Seated 1949, and has been on view in the BMA’s Cone Wing since 1957. “The Nude(1922-1925), which both exhibit Matisse’s dazzling approaches to the female form. Baltimore Museum of Art was founded in 1914 and constructed in the style of The collection is complemented by other significant works from 19th century artists such a Roman temple. as Courbet, Renoir and van Gogh.”- From the Cone Collection Website