We have developed creative activities accessible online for you and your family to enjoy at home!
START CREATING: Bring some colorful flowers into your life by drawing a beautiful still life or cut-out collage inspired by Henri Matisse. Take a picture of your work and share it with SUAG on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using the hashtag #SUAGkids for a chance to be featured.
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them." –Henri Matisse
Click on ICON to watch Mati and Dada and learn about Henri Matisse. Fauvism is an art movement and a style of painting known for its special use of color that was invented in Paris in the early 1900s. Henri Matisse was regarded as the movement's leading figure. At first, the new style of painting was not liked very much byart critic Louis Vauxcelles. In his review in Gil Blas, Vauxcelles sarcastically remarked, "Donatello aumilieu des fauves” which is French for “Donatello surrounded by wild beasts!” The term Fauvesre mained and would be used to describe this style of painting. Its artists would form a small group known as les Fauves. The Fauvist style is characterized by a wild use of unnatural colors where colors are separated from
Woman with a Hat (Femme au chapeau), 1905 by Henri Matisse Bouquet, Vase with two handles, 1907 by Henri Matisse Green Stripe, 1905 by Henri Matisse
their usual, representational roles as seen in the real world. This play with color gives new emotional meaning reds, greens and every hue in between, creating a strong, unified work that seems flat on the canvas.
MAY 2020
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES
ACTIVITY 1
CAN YOU COLOR LIKE A FAUVIST, A WILD BEAST?! EXPERIMENT AND PLAY WITH BOLD COLORS.
WHAT DO I NEED? Drawing paper, drawing or painting supplies.
DIRECTIONS: Draw simple flowers using spirals and letters. Use bright colors that are unrealistic for the flowers, to color like a Fauvist.
ROSE: 1. Draw a controlled spiral using your dominant hand, the one you use to write. 2. SWITCH hands and draw a loose spiral traced around the controlled spiral. Overlapping the spirals help create the organic look of petals.
TULIP: 1. Draw the letter “U” 2. Draw the letter “w” connecting the two sides of the “U”
MAY 2020
ACTIVITY 2
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES
HOW TO SET UP A MATISSE INSPIRED STILL LIFE DIRECTIONS:
WHAT DO I NEED?
The elements of art that you will use to create your Still Life are LINES, SHAPES, TEXTURE and COLOR.
Paper, drawing or painting supplies.
1.Draw a vase.
2. Draw stems for the flowers.
4. Draw the roses.
5. Draw the leaves.
6. Draw a table.
8. Draw bold colored patterns on the wall.
9. Color with crayons for texture.
7. Draw the room lines.
3. Draw the tulips.
MAY 2020
ACTIVITY 3
SALISBURY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERIES
CUT-OUT COLLAGE ACTIVITY
La perruche et la sirene (The perruche and the mermaid ) 1952 - by Henri Matisse
DIRECTIONS: Imagine a place, an activity or a person you may miss because you have to stay home. Create an uplifting collage to remind yourself of the person, place or thing that makes you happy, like Matisse did when he created The Swimming Pool.
WHAT DO I NEED? Scissors, glue stick, white paper, construction paper, colored paper* *Matisse would have large sheets of white paper painted a single color.
DRAWING WITH SCISSORS When health complications caused Matisse to no longer leave his home, he chose to use paper to help him create large, colorful compositions and installations at home. Matisse decided that if he could not make it to the places he wanted to go then he would create his very own. He would cut and lay out paper on the floor to create the sense of a garden and Matisse’s first and only selfcontained, site-specific cut-out The Swimming Pool was in his living room. He cut his own divers, swimmers, and sea creatures out of paper painted in an ultramarine blue. The blue forms were pinned on the white paper, which helped define the aquatic ballet of bodies, splashing water, and light. Matisse did not let his physical limitations limit his imagination and turned cut paper into innovative masterpieces.
CUT-OUT COLLAGE EXAMPLE
Beach Days by Elena Taylor
FUN MARYLAND MATISSE FACT!
To see the largest collection in the world of Henri Matisse’s masterpieces you can visit the Baltimore Museum of Art when they open back up! Collected by Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone during the early to mid
The museum features more than 90,000 art works from various eras, with the largest
20th Century, the Cone Collection is one of the most important art collections
collection of Matisse’s masterpieces in the world. The famous Cone Collection is perhaps
because it is the largest archive of Matisse’s masterpieces in the world. The
the museum’s most significant exhibition. During the early 20th century, sisters Claribe
Cone Collection of Modern Art is considered the crown jewel of the Baltimore
land Etta Cone visited Paris studios of both Matisse and Picasso, and set out to acquire an
Museum of Art, featuring works by Matisse, Degas, Pissarro, Picasso, and
exceptional collection of works by the renowned artists. Among them is Matisse’s world
Courbet. This large collection came to the BMA upon Etta Cone’s death in
famous painting Large Reclining Nude (1935) and the monumental Large Seated
1949, and has been on view in the BMA’s Cone Wing since 1957. “The
Nude(1922-1925), which both exhibit Matisse’s dazzling approaches to the female form.
Baltimore Museum of Art was founded in 1914 and constructed in the style of
The collection is complemented by other significant works from 19th century artists such
a Roman temple.
as Courbet, Renoir and van Gogh.”- From the Cone Collection Website