Artist Spotlight- February Addition

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Woman with a hat by Henri Émile Benoît Matisse in 1905

This month in Mr. Draper’s 2D art class the students focused on an interesting theme; they painted artwork inspired off of a French artist named, Henri Matisse. Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for his use of color with famous paintings being, “Woman with a hat (1905).”

The students practiced this old painters method by doing portraits using the same method of color that Matisse used called fauvism, where the artists paints a realistic subject with unnatural colors such a green, blue, yellow, or purple.

The students did an incredible job on their given task working hard with stunning results. their uses of color are brilliant in living up to modern day fauvism.

Fauvism artwork by Valerie Harris

 

Fauvism artwork by Yana Johnson