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The undisputed leader of the Fauve Group, and regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20th century art, Henri Matisse was a master of the use of color and form to convey emotional expression.
Born on December 31, 1869 in Cateau-Cambresis, in the north of France, Matisse grew up in a middle-class family. Eventually, he studied and began to practice law. However, while recovering from a medical ailment, Matisse began painting and became intrigued by it. Soon, he gave up his law practice and moved to Paris to study art formally.
In 1893, Matisse’s work was noticed by Gustav Moreau, an art teacher in Paris. Moreau eventually asked Matisse to join his atelier without requiring an entrance exam. Matisse officially joined Moreau’s atelier in 1895. In 1896 and 1897, Matisse first exhibited his work in the Salon de la Sociét?Nationale.
Matisse’s early style was a conventional form of naturalism, using many of the elements found in the works of several of the old masters. He also heavily studied more contemporary art, especially that of the impressionists.
Matisse’s eventual artistic liberation, in terms of the use of color to render forms and organize spatial planes, came through the influence of French painters Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin and the tragic Dutchman, Vincent Van Gogh. Later, he developed his style further after the work of Henri Edmond Cross and Paul Signac, using small strokes of pure pigment to create the strongest visual vibration of intense color.
In 1905, Matisse’s liberation was easily shown in several of his commissioned works for Sergey Shchukin, a Moscow industrialist, who frequently bought out Matisse’s studios around this time. Shchukin requested that Matisse paint two murals for the grand staircase of his house in Moscow, the Trubetskoy Palace. The themes of the paintings were to be “Dance?and “Music.?
One of the paintings that came from Shchukin’s assignment was The Dance, or La Danse. Matisse is said to have gotten the idea for this painting in Collioure in 1905 while watching fishermen and peasants on the beach in a circular dance called a sardana. Although the traditional sardana is a rather stately routine, La Danse is a strikingly more intense version. The circle of stamping and twisting represents every motion to be as ancient as the dance itself.
In 1914, war broke out in France. Too old to fight, Matisse was too wise to imagine that his art could interpose itself between history and its victims, and he was too certain of his alms as an artist to change them. Through the war years, Matisse’s art grew more and more abstract, as well as more amplified. A good example of his style during this time period can be seen in The Moroccans from 1916.
In 1917, Matisse moved permanently to the South of France. “In order to paint my pictures, I need to remain for several days in the same state of mind, and I do not find this in any atmosphere but that of the Cote d’Azure,?he said. He spent most of the rest of his days living in the Hotel Regina in a vast apartment where he was able to have room to create. The elements of his time in his new residence frequently appeared in many of his later paintings. In fact, Matisse once said he wanted his art to have the effect of a good armchair on a tired businessman.
Overall, Matisse’s work reflects a number of influences, including stylized forms of the masks and sculpture of African art, the decorative quality of Near Eastern art, the brightness of the French impressionists and the simplified forms of Cézanne and the cubists.
Although he was often bedridden during his last years, he was able to keep himself occupied by creating works of brilliantly colored paper cutouts on canvas called decoupage. Matisse died in 1954 in Nice, having enjoyed international fame and adoration from critics, collectors, and younger painters ?something not many artists in history were able to do.
Several other notable works by Matisse that can be found at OverstockArt.com include:
Interior with a Violin Case
Still Life with Oranges
Blue Nude II
Red Fish

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By following these ten steps, you will become a more efficient note taker and this will help improve your overall study skills. With good note taking skills, better grades are just around the corner.

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Distance learning colleges are popping up all over the world. One of the most well-known, University of Phoenix, started in 1976 with 8 students. Currently, its academic enrollment numbers more than 200,000 students located all over the world, making it the largest private, accredited university of the distance learning colleges.
In fact, it’s the largest private accredited university in the United States, period. Over 100,000 of those students are enrolled strictly in the online distance learning programs.
Distance learning colleges are flourishing for a number of reasons. There is our fast changing economy. People need to stay up to date on their skills, or constantly acquire new one’s so that they can advance in their career and stay valuable to their employer, without becoming obsolete.
There are also many people who feel education is a lifelong pursuit and not something that stops once you graduate from college. Both of these lead into one of the biggest reasons for the popularity of distance learning education and that is convenience.
We all lead very hectic lives and the one thing we always seem to be short of is time. Distance learning colleges eliminate the time aspect of education as much as it can be eliminated.
Continuing your education through distance learning eliminates a lot of the hassles of night school. You don’t have to work all day and then drive to class, spend three hours of your evening, drive home, and then study. You can just log on to your computer when you get home instead. This is a much less stressful way to pursue a degree.
Another advantage is not going through the hassle and stress of finding the right classes, in the right order, that are available at a time that is at least somewhat convenient for you.
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Chinese is a language, or a group of languages, spoken by 1.3 billion people worldwide. If you believe Chinese to be one language, rather than a grouping, it is the single most commonly spoken language on the planet. It is spoken in countries like China, Taiwan Singapore, and Malaysia. If you are interested in learning Chinese, it can be intimidating and challenging. But learning Chinese can also be rewarding, and knowing it can have benefits for your career, and help to improve your travels to Asia.
If you decide to learn the Chinese language, there a number of ways you can go about doing so. As a college student, you can study Mandarin Chinese and earn a degree in it. Earning a college degree in Chinese will provide you with a solid knowledge of formal, or Mandarin, Chinese. You will also be proficient in reading and writing the alphabet, which is a standard alphabet throughout the Chinese-speaking world. If you are established in your career, and find it necessary to learn Chinese for business dealings and /or business-associated travel, you can enroll in an accelerated Chinese language course online, or by purchasing audiotapes that teach quick techniques, which will help you to rapidly learn how to speak basic Mandarin Chinese. Learning to speak Chinese this way is convenient if you need to learn it before an important business trip. There are several learning centers that provide accelerated online programs in Chinese, and many lesson on tape available for purchase.
If you are a student majoring of minoring in Chinese, or if you are a tourist with a desire to travel to Asia, an ideal way to learn the Chinese language is through participation in an immersion program. By doing this, you will not only learn how to speak Chinese, but you will learn about and experience Chinese culture. By studying Chinese in a city like Beijing, where the language is natively spoken, you will become part of the life and culture, and you will find learning to speak the Chinese language is much easier than you thought. Since it is a total immersion into the Chinese world, you will learn all conversational and idiomatic styles of the language. You will interact everyday with people who are native speakers of Chinese, and who can’t or won’t speak English with you. You will be taken on guided tours of the famous landmarks, as well as the everyday places. You will grow to understand and recognize the value of the ancient Chinese culture: the history, the art, the architecture, the food, and the people. You will attend courses in which you will learn the complex Chinese alphabet, how to read it, and how to write it as well. Learning the Chinese language by attending an immersion program is an ideal way to go.
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Learning how to speak, read, and write the Chinese language has many advantages. It gives you the potential to enhance you career by working and/or traveling abroad, or you would have opportunities to embark on new careers as a translator or a teacher. If you plan to travel to Asia, learning Chinese will make your journeys less stressful and more enjoyable. Taking the time to learning the Chinese language will open your eyes to a new and often misunderstood culture, and is an achievement that can be personally and professionally fulfilling.