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Happy New Year!!

Champagne (2005) by Steve Bloom

Artist Birthdays December 31 – HENRI MATISSE

HENRI MATISSE (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954)

• Nationality: French
• Field: Painting, sculpture, printmaking
• Art Movement: Fauvism
• ARTiFact: In 1888 he passed the bar exam and began to practice law. The following year, an attack of appendicitis caused his mother to bring him art supplies to keep him occupied; he began to paint for the first time.
• Artist Quote: “From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.”
• Notable Artwork (shown below): The Joy of Life, 1905-06.

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