example of L2 presentaion

1. Le Bonheur de Vivre (1905-06)
Henri Matisse

2. About the Work
• The Joy of Life, possibly Matisse's best-known
Fauvist work
• It is a large-scale painting depicting an
landscape filled with brilliantly coloured
forest, meadow, sea, and sky and populated
by nude figures both at rest and in motion.
• Colour is used for emotional expression and
the formal needs of the canvas, not to show
the realities of nature.

3. Fauvism
• The first paintings were first seen in public in Paris in 1905
at the Salon d’ Automne, the seasons major public art
event
• Term “fauves” (wild beasts) first used by art critic and they
never used term “fauve” themselves
• they were never a formal group and the artists all have
differing styles but are connected by common techniques
and concepts
• Characteristics-
• Exaggerated, vibrant colour
• Use of contrasting colours to create volume and structure
• Broad brushstrokes
• Moderately thick paint application
• Simplified drawing
• Solid planes of colour

4. Materials and Techniques
• Technique: oil paint
• Material: canvas
• Dimensions: 175 x 241 cm

5. Cultural Events
Fauvist painters used pure colour out of the tube and two events made
this possible.
• Paint in a tube was evented- Before this pigments would be made by
hand and take a long time to make. The best paint storage was a pig’s
bladder sealed with string; an artist would prick the bladder with a
tack to get at the paint. This was hard to use and would dry out
quickly.
• Development of synthetic/chemical pigments made paint more less
toxic, more affordable and the colour was the same everytime it was
made.