Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse is an artist who applies the use of colour in his paintings to creare feelings, emotions and atmosphere, being both positive and negative. Matisse began painting still-lives and lanscapes in a Flemish style, painting his first works in darker colours, creating a gloomy atmosphere. In these first experiments he gained experience and moved onto creating new emotions and feelings through tones and shades of paint, matisse used strong colours to create realistic qualities of impressionism.

Matisse's work is very successful in creating atmosphere and emotion through the colours and textures of the paint. He creates emotion which successfully gets across to the viewer without it being intentional, the marks and texture of the paint create shadow and lighting on the objects, giving them value and importance, and creating focus on them. In doing this Henri Matisse's work links to my own, giving the objects (the subject) in the painting value through colour and texture. The colour gives the painting atmosphere, showing what time of day or night it is, and in doing so creating a negative or positive emotion, due to the dark or light colours.