Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Assignment #9: Matisse Self Portrait Project

Due: next week

You are to choose a Henri Matisse portrait drawing.  In the same manner as the Van Gogh project and the Ingres project, make a copy of the Matisse drawing and make a self portrait drawing in the same scale, style, and position as the copy. Matisse was all about line quality.  His line has an unselfconscious whimsical quality that is also extremely confident.  In copying his line you cannot possibly be authentically unselfconscious, but you have to look that way.  Spray fix!

There are a number of websites that are great image resources: artcyclopedia.com, and artchive.com, but also try Google images.  Be creative in how you search for images.  They’re definitely out there . . .

Hint: Be sure to choose drawings, not prints that look like drawings. 


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