Henri Matisse was a highly influential French artist known for his use of color and fluid style. Over his career he helped define revolutionary developments in painting and sculpture in the early 20th century. While initially labelled a Fauve for his expressive use of color, by the 1920s he was hailed as an upholder of classical French painting traditions. His mastery of color and drawing established him as a leading figure in modern art over his 50-year career.

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4. Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse 31
December 1869 – 3 November
1954was a French artist, known
for both his use of colour and his
fluid and original draughtsmanship.
He was a draughtsman, printmaker,
and sculptor, but is
known primarily as a painter.
Matisse is commonly regarded,
along with Pablo Picasso and
Marcel Duchamp, as one of the
three artists who helped to define
the revolutionary developments in
the plastic arts throughout the
opening decades of the twentieth
century, responsible for significant
developments in painting and
sculpture.Although he was initially
labelled a Fauve (wild beast),
by the 1920s he was increasingly
hailed
as an upholder of the classical
tradition in French painting.His
mastery of the expressive language
of colour and drawing, displayed in
a body of work spanning over a
half-century, won him recognition
as a leading figure in modern art.
Early life and education
Matisse was born in Le Cateau-
Cambrésis, in the
Nord department in northern
France, the oldest son of a
prosperous grain merchant.
He grew up in Bohain-en-
Vermandois, Picardie, France. In
1887 he went to Paris to study law,
working as a court administrator in
Le Cateau-Cambrésis after gaining
his qualification. He first started to
paint in 1889, after his mother
brought him art supplies during a
period of convalescence following
an attack of appendicitis. He
discovered "a kind of paradise" as
he later described it,and decided to
become an artist, deeply
disappointing his father.
In 1891 he returned to Paris to
study art at the Académie Julian
and became a student of William-
Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave
Moreau. Initially he painted still
lifes and landscapes in a traditional
style, at which he achieved
reasonable proficiency. Matisse was
influenced by the works of earlier
masters such as Jean-Baptiste-
Siméon Chardin, Nicolas Poussin,
and Antoine Watteau, as well as by
modern artists, such as Édouard
Manet, and by Japanese art.
Chardin was one of the painters
Matisse most admired; as an art
student he made copies of four of
Chardin's paintings in the Louvre.

5. In 1896 and 1897, Matisse visited
the Australian painter John Peter
Russell on the island Belle Île off
the coast of Brittany. Russell
introduced him to Impressionism
and to the work of van Gogh, who
had been a friend of Russell but
was completely unknown at the
time. Matisse's style changed
completely. He later said "Russell
was my teacher, and Russell
explained colour theory to me."In
1896 Matisse exhibited five
paintings in the salon of the
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts,
two of which were purchased by
the state.
With the model Caroline Joblau,
he had a daughter, Marguerite,
born in 1894. In 1898 he married
Amélie Noellie Parayre; the two
raised Marguerite together and
had two sons, Jean (born 1899)
and Pierre (born 1900). Marguerite
and Amélie often served as models
for Matisse.
In 1898, on the advice of Camille
Pissarro, he went to London to
study the paintings of J. M. W.
Turner and then went on a trip to
Corsica.Upon his return to Paris in
February 1899, he worked beside
Albert Marquet and met André
Derain, Jean Puy,[16] and Jules
Flandrin.Matisse immersed himself
in the work of others and went into
debt from buying work from
painters he admired. The work he
hung and displayed in his home
included a plaster bust by Rodin, a
painting by Gauguin, a drawing by
van Gogh, and Cézanne's Three
Bathers. In Cézanne's sense of
pictorial structure and colour,
Matisse found his main inspiration.
Many of Matisse's paintings from
1898 to 1901 make use of a
Divisionist technique he adopted
after reading Paul Signac's essay,
"D'Eugène Delacroix au Néo-
impressionisme". His paintings of
1902–03, a period of material
hardship for the artist, are
comparatively somber and reveal a
preoccupation with form. Having
made his first attempt at sculpture,
a copy after Antoine-Louis Barye, in
1899, he devoted much of his
energy to working in clay,
completing The Slave in 1903.

7. Around April 1906 he met Pablo
Picasso, who was 11 years younger
than Matisse.The two became
lifelong friends as well as rivals and
are often compared. One key
difference between them is that
Matisse drew and painted from
nature, while Picasso was much
more inclined to work from
imagination. The subjects painted
most frequently by both artists
were women and still life, with
Matisse more likely to place his
figures in fully realised interiors.
Matisse and Picasso were first
brought together at the Paris salon
of Gertrude Stein and her
companion Alice B. Toklas. During
the first decade of the twentieth
century, the Americans in Paris—
Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo
Stein, Michael Stein and Michael's
wife Sarah—were important
collectors and supporters of
Matisse's paintings. In addition
Gertrude Stein's two American
friends from Baltimore, the Cone
sisters Claribel and Etta, became
major patrons of Matisse and
Picasso, collecting hundreds of
their paintings and drawings. The
Cone collection is now exhibited in
the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Henri Matisse, The Moroccans,
1915-16, oil on canvas, 181.3 x
279.4 cm, Museum of Modern Art
While numerous artists visited the
Stein salon, many of these artists
were not represented among the
paintings on the walls at 27 rue de
Fleurus. Where the works of Renoir,
Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso
dominated Leo and Gertrude
Stein's collection, Sarah Stein's
collection particularly emphasised
Matisse.
Contemporaries of Leo and
Gertrude Stein, Matisse and Picasso
became part of their social circle
and routinely joined the gatherings
that took place on Saturday
evenings at 27 rue de Fleurus.
Gertrude attributed the beginnings
of the Saturday evening salons to
Matisse, remarking:
"More and more frequently, people
began visiting to see the Matisse
paintings—and the Cézannes:
Matisse brought people, everybody
brought somebody, and they came
at any time and it began to be a
nuisance, and it was in this way
that Saturday evenings began."

8. Among Pablo Picasso's
acquaintances who also
frequented the Saturday evenings
were: Fernande Olivier (Picasso's
mistress), Georges Braque, André
Derain, the poets Max Jacob and
Guillaume Apollinaire, Marie
Laurencin (Apollinaire's mistress
and an artist in her own right),
and Henri Rousseau.
His friends organised and financed
the Académie Matisse in Paris, a
private and non-commercial
school in which Matisse instructed
young artists. It operated from
1907 until 1911. The initiative for
the academy came from the Steins
and the Dômiers, with the
involvement of Hans Purrmann,
Patrick Henry Bruce and Sarah
Stein.
Matisse spent seven months in
Morocco from 1912 to 1913,
producing about 24 paintings and
numerous drawings. His frequent
orientalist topics of later paintings,
such as odalisques, can be traced to
this period.

9. Fauvism as a style began around
1900 and continued beyond 1910.
The movement as such lasted only
a few years, 1904–1908, and had
three exhibitions.The leaders
of the movement were Matisse
and André Derain. Matisse's first
solo exhibition was at Ambroise
Vollard's gallery in 1904, without
much success. His fondness for
bright and expressive colour
became more pronounced
after he spent the summer
of 1904 painting in St. Tropez
with the neo-Impressionists
Signac and Henri-Edmond
Cross.In that year he painted the
most important of his works in the
neo-Impressionist style, Luxe,
Calme et Volupté.In 1905 he
travelled southwards again to
work with André Derain at
Collioure. His paintings of this
period are characterised by flat
shapes and controlled lines, using
pointillism in a less rigorous way
than before.
Matisse and a group of artists now
known as "Fauves" exhibited
together in a room at the Salon
d'Automne in 1905. The paintings
expressed emotion with
wild, often dissonant colours,
without regard for the subject's
natural colours. Matisse showed
Open Window and Woman with
the Hat at the Salon. Critic Louis
Vauxcelles described the work with
the phrase "Donatello parmi les
fauves!" (Donatello among the wild
beasts), referring to a Renaissance-
type sculpture that shared the
room with them. His comment was
printed on 17 October 1905 in Gil
Blas, a daily newspaper, and passed
into popular usage. The exhibition
garnered harsh criticism—"A pot of
paint has been flung in the face of
the public", said the critic Camille
Mauclair—but also some
favourable attention.When the
painting that was singled out for
special condemnation, Matisse's
Woman with a Hat, was bought by
Gertrude and Leo Stein, the
embattled artist's morale improved
considerably.
Les toits de Collioure, 1905, oil on
canvas, The Hermitage, St.
Petersburg, Russia
Matisse was recognised as a leader
of the Fauves, along with André
Derain; the two were friendly rivals,
each with his own followers.

10. Other members were Georges
Braque, Raoul Dufy, and Maurice
de Vlaminck. The Symbolist
painter Gustave Moreau (1826–
1898) was the movement's
inspirational teacher.
As a professor at the
École des Beaux-Arts in Paris,
he pushed his students to think
outside of the lines of formality
and to follow their visions.
In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire,
commenting about Matisse in an
article published in La Falange,
wrote, "We are not here in the
presence of an extravagant or an
extremist undertaking: Matisse's
art is eminently reasonable."But
Matisse's work of the time also
encountered vehement criticism,
and it was difficult for him to
provide for his family.His painting
Nu bleu (1907) was
burned in effigy at the Armory
Show in Chicago in 1913.
The decline of the Fauvist
movement after 1906 did not
affect the career of Matisse;
many of his finest works were
created between 1906 and 1917,
when he was an active part of the
great gathering of artistic talent in
Montparnasse, even though he did
not quite fit in, with his
conservative appearance and strict
bourgeois work habits. He
continued to absorb new
influences. He travelled to Algeria
in 1906 studying African art and
Primitivism. After viewing a large
exhibition of Islamic art in Munich
in 1910, he spent two months in
Spain studying Moorish art. He
visited Morocco in 1912 and again
in 1913 and while painting in
Tangiers he made several changes
to his work, including his use of
black as a colour.The effect on
Matisse's art was a new boldness in
the use of intense, unmodulated
colour, as in L'Atelier Rouge (1911).
Matisse had a long association with
the Russian art collector Sergei
Shchukin. He created one of his
major works La Danse specially for
Shchukin as part of a two painting
commission, the other painting
being Music, 1910. An earlier
version of La Danse (1909) is in the
collection of The Museum of
Modern Art in New York City.

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13. Mohammad Ehsai
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14. Mohammad Ehsai was born in
1939, Ghazvin - Iran is a master
calligrapher turned artist who uses
dense, interlaced texts to provide a
contemplative space for language
that does not rely on direct
translation. He graduated from
Faculty of fine arts, Tehran
university. His works are inspired
by Western abstraction and
Chinese brush painting. Large in
scale and often brightly colored
upon black backgrounds, his
compositions require perceptive
silence rather than reading skills,
and seek to convey the heavenly
power that calligraphy has
traditionally possessed. By toying
with proportion, ratio, and scale,
these works visualize a distinct
mysticism in their interpretation
and take on the utopian ideals of
Modernism. The artist has created
illustrious murals and private
commissions, using his own unique
style to transform the ways in
which this seemingly rigid text
might be distilled.
Ehsai’s murals can be found on the
Iranian Embassy in Abu Dhabi and
the Natural Museum of Iran. He has
exhibited extensively in Tehran and
has had work in institutions such as
the British Museum, London, The
State Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg, Leighton House
Museum, London, and Beirut
Exhibition Center, among others.
He received the National Award or
Art and Culture in Iran in 2005.

15. Time line
1986 to 2001, Member of
Syndicate of Iranian Graphic
Designers
Art consultant of Contemporary
Art Museum
1997, Member of Foundation
Committee of Iranian Painters
1996 to 2001, Member
of Scientific Committee of Tehran
University
Member of Iranian Calligraphy
Board
1958 to 1963, Teaching in Tehran
Schools
1964 Experienced Persian Script
(Calligraphy) in Graphics and
Decorative Calligraphy (Paint-
Calligraphy)
1965 to 1974, Calligrapher, Editor,
Art Expert and Editor of Art Books
in Iran Education Books
Organization
1966 to 2001, Collaboration in Art
and Culture activities and also had
Individual and Group exhibitions
1970 to 1988, traveled to Asian,
American and European countries
to Study, Research and
Collaboration in Art Meetings and
also for his Individual and Group
exhibitions
1972 First Selected Painter in Iran
Selected Painter in Iran and France
1975 Commenced with Techni-
Process N.Y. (New York, USA)
1975 to 1978, Performance of 450
sq. m Paint-Calligraphy for Tehran
University
1980 to 1983, Performance of 5
Calligraphy inscriptions for a
Mosque in Tehran
1985 Calligraphy and Pottery of Iran
Bastan Museum's Entry Inscription
1988 to 1991, Performance of 230
sq. m Pottery inscriptions for Iran
Embassy in UAE
2000 Encouraged in 5th Iranian
Contemporary Painters by Judjment
Committee
2001 Jahannama Gallery - Niavaran
Palace, Tehran.

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Accepted Artwork: Painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture,
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17. World of the Angel by Aziz Anzabi 15

18. Sculpture Clay, part of a world of the angels collection:
This work is very delicate with a great amount on the dresses
of the angels.
The spiral shape causes it to have a beautiful .unique look to
it. Aziz has tried to use the lines of Persian miniatures and
shapes . The angels look very concentrated in what they are
doing and while some of them look happy some of the angels
don't. There is a force in this sculpture that places the viewer
in a middle eastern atmosphere. Even though there are no
colours on the sculpture when you look at the different
flowers placed on the angel's dresses the audience feels like
they are in a garden and this relates straight to the angels
which gives a metaphysic feeling. The lines are very intricate
and every where but the eyes can easily recognize the details
even though it's complicated and this is a plus for this
sculpture. The angels are all women suggesting that the
femininity of the angels can cause them to want to protect
the humans from a far. Because of all the violence and wars
that are going around the world the angels are grieving for
the innocent .The complicating shape of the angels can
suggest just how complicated life is. The fact that they don't
have any colour also makes the audience feel as if they are
not real because they seem more fictional and this could also
refer to people's beliefs on whether angels exist or not.
Clay
28cm x 23cm x 15cm
By:Asra

19. Gorgan Iran 17

20. Gorgan About this sound
pronunciation is the capital of
Golestan Province, Iran. It lies
approximately 400 kilometres to
the north east of Tehran, some 30
km (19 mi) away from the Caspian
Sea. In the 2006 census, its
population was 269,226, in 73,702
families
History
There are several archaeological
sites near Gorgan, including
Tureng Tepe and Shah Tepe, in
which there are remains dating to
the Neolithic and Chalcolithic eras.
According to the Greek historian
Arrian, Zadracarta was the largest
city of Hyrcania and site of the
"royal palace". The term means
"the yellow city", and it was given
to it from the great number of
oranges, lemons, and other fruit
trees which grew in the outskirts
of that city.
Hyrcania became part of the
Achaemenid Empire during the
reign of Cyrus the Great (559-530
BC), its founder, or his successor
Cambyses (530-522 BC).
The Great Wall of Gorgan, the
second biggest defensive wall in
world, was built in the Parthian and
Sassanian periods.
At the time of the Sassanids,
"Gurgan" appeared as the name of
a city, province capital, and
province.
Gurgan maintained its
independence as a Zoroastrian
state even after Persia was
conquered by the invading Arab
Muslims in 8th century.
In 1210, the city was invaded and
sacked by the army of Kingdom of
Georgia under command of the
brothers Mkhargrdzeli.
The "Old Gorgan" was destroyed
during the Mongol invasion in the
13th century, and the center of the
region was moved to what was
called "Astarabad", which is
currently called "Gorgan".
Gurgan and its surrounding regions
was sometimes considered as part
of the Parthia (the Greater
Khorasan) or the Tabaristan
regions.
Astarabad was an important
political and religious city during
the Qajar dynasty.

21. Geography and climate
The wide Dasht-e Gorgan (Plains of Gorgan) are located north of the
city and geographically bounded by 37°00' - 37°30' north latitude and
54°00' - 54°30' east longitude, covering an area of about 1,700 square
kilometres (660 sq mi).
Some 150 km (93 mi) east of Gorgan is the Golestan National Park,
home to a big portion of the fauna of Iran.
In general, Golestan has a moderate and humid climate known as "the
moderate Caspian climate." The effective factors behind such a climate
are: Alborz mountain range, direction of the mountains, height of the
area, neighborhood to the sea, vegetation surface, local winds, altitude
and weather fronts. As a result of the above factors, three different
climates exist in the region: plain moderate, mountainous, and semi-
arid. Gorgan valley has a semi-arid climate. The average annual
temperature is 18.2 °C (64.8 °F) and the annual rainfall is 600
millimetres (24 in).
Ziarat Village

22. Demographics
The population of the city has been 329,536 as of 2011.
Majority of people of Gorgan speak Persian. A big portion of the city are
migrants from nearby regions, including Mazanderanis, Azeris, people
from Semnan and Khorasan provinces, as well as some Turkmens, and a
small population of Kazakhs.
Gorgani, a dialect of Mazanderani language, was formerly spoken in the
city, but it is extinct now, and only several of its words have remained in
the accent of the Persian-speakers of the city.

23. London Art Meetup
Comparative Persian/Iranian and European Art
Each session lasts 90 minutes, once a week on Tuesday starting from
5:30 pm. Fee is £10 per session to be paid in batches of 4 sessions in
advance (£40).
Term 1 - will focus on the traditional Persian art of making and painting
Pen Boxes.
Tue Sep 6 - 5:30 PM
Price:
GBP40.00 per person
Meritage Centre
Church End, Hendon, NW4 4JT, London 21

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