background preloader

Study

Facebook Twitter

Digital Web Magazine. Modern & contemporary artists and art. Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp. Henri Matisse. Click on the links to access a relative ligthbox image.

Henri Matisse

December 31, 1869 Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse is born in the cottage of his maternal grandmother in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. He was raised in Bohain-en-Vermandois, an industrial textile center. Henri hates the northern winters. His father, Émile Hippolyte Matisse, was a grain merchant whose family were weavers. His mother, named Anna Heloise Gerard, was a daughter of a long line of well-to-do tanners. Principles of Design. The Principles are concepts used to organize or arrange the structural elements of design.

Principles of Design

Again, the way in which these principles are applied affects the expressive content, or the message of the work. The principles are: Balance is the concept of visual equilibrium, and relates to our physical sense of balance. Proquest Tech & Business Books - Home.