{"id":18801,"date":"2023-05-22T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18801"},"modified":"2023-06-06T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:33:32","slug":"henri-matisse-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/henri-matisse-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Henri Matisse Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Together with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/pablo-picasso-biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Picasso<\/a>, Matisse played a fundamental role in revolutionizing the world of modern art over the course of his sixty plus years as an artist. Primarily known for his paintings, Matisse embraced intense and unrealistic colors during his early years as an artist, typifying the Fauvist style. His work consistently displayed a mastery of his craft and a constant search to discover, in his own words, the \u201cessential character of things.\u201d The portrait of him seen in the show, a photograph by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/brassai-biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brassa\u00ef<\/a>, captures the artist in his workshop in 1939, one of the final years before cancer and surgeries left the artist wheelchair bound. As a result, up until his death in 1954, paper collage overtook painting as Matisse\u2019s primary medium. His final painting was finished in 1951.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) Together with Picasso, Matisse played a fundamental role&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18801","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19293,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18801\/revisions\/19293"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}