How Did Henri Matisse Create Post Impressionism

Escaped Prisoner "An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success" (Henri Matisse). These were the words of a great artist who experimented with the norms of art in the Post Impressionism era. Post Impressionism was a time of reflection of Impressionism art and new creations. Henri Matisse was not always considered a good artist as often his artworks were not perceived well. The popularity of that time resided with the norms of cubism, linear art, pointillism, divisionism, and more emotion. Henri Matisse studied and experimented with every one

Henri Matisse’s Joy of Life’s style is the embodiment of all the knowledge he has gained from the post impressionism era by painting with expressive colors, using exaggerated figures, and creating fauvism. Henri Matisse first started painting under the most unfortunate circumstances, where he was in the hospital with appendicitis. While he was in the hospital, Henri Matisse’s mom brought him painting utensils and materials. From there he found his love and started to study many different art forms. He learned from different teachers, but his most influential teacher was Gustave Moreau. Many of Matisse’s artwork incorporated the style of using inner memories, emotion, and his created art style, fauvism. At the beginning he started to adopt the Pointillist style that Seurat and Signac used, and by 1904 he was given a one-man exhibition by Ambroise Vollard. By 1905 at Salon d’Automne he was presenting a new method called fauvism, with the art piece Women in a Hat. His wife Ameilie Parayre was the model in the portrait. An article by History Today which is an informational data

The main artists of this time were Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Paul Cézanne, and more. In a time of reflection these artist and more came together to break free from normal impressionism and create art with more deeper symbolism with optical illusions, and more inner thoughts (Voorhies, James). These artists have created their own legacy by rejecting the original style of the Impressionism era and beginning work on their own style. In an article by The Art Story they state, “Rejecting interest in depicting the observed world, they instead looked to their memories and emotions in order to connect with the viewer on a deeper level” (Post Impressionism Art Period). From 1898 to 1908 there was a new art style that was not technically a movement, called Fauvism. Fauvism was given the name by a critic who called there artwork “Les Fauves” which means wild beast. The art style was expressiveness of colors, exaggerated (rounded) figures, and simplistic subjects. Fauvism’s influences include Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent Van Gogh. As stated by Shelley Esaak on Fauvism art, “ Henri Matisse credited both Georges Seurat (1859-1891) and Paul Signac (1863-1935) for helping him discover his inner Wild Beast. Matisse painted with Signac -- a practitioner of Seurat's Pointillism -- at Saint-Tropez in the summer of 1904” (Esaak, Shelley). The post impressionism era was a time of