Our tutor had us watch a documentary on an artist named Henri Matisse, now I have to say it was a interesting documentary just because most of Matisses art was ludacris, I mean it was different because at first glance none would accept it as art. Though Matisse had a tough time trying to get into the whole art scene with his interesting take on using light as a tool to create imagery that almost had no form no proportions but his work did have one thing and that was indeed colour.
Matisse was a daredevil when it came to the colour, he would just use the typical complementary colours on the colour wheel, he would go ahead and use colours that noone would ever of thought of trying to use together, does it work? Honestly in some cases...still there was a level of creativity about most of his paintings.
Also when coming to the end of his days, he decided to still continue and try to create something different...by using cuttouts, this is where I started getting abit more interested because he began creating these really abstract images that had some really interesting shpes to them, one of my favorite being the 'snail' that almost had this sense of geometry about it, I also like how he incoorperated these rough ripped edges mixed with sharply cut edges.
In the end Matisses work went ahead and inspired many modern day art/graphics/fashion, I'm sure that Matisses use of colour will remain to be an inspiration to most design to come.
