Today in 1869 the great Henri Matisse was born in northern France, although later in life he would seek out the distinct light and color of the southern part of the country. He eventually became a master of color and deceptively simple form and shape, and if you do enjoy his work it can have a curiously both enlivening and calming effect.
I discover the quality of colors in a purely instinctive way. -- Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
Pictured by Henri Matisse: Interior with Goldfish Bowl (1914); The Music Lesson (1917); Conversation Under the Olive Trees (1921); Self-Portrait (circa 1900)
