# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henri-matisse
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:53:42.362Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1869, Henri Émile Benoît Matisse trained as a draughtsman and sculptor but found his edge as a painter. Between 1900 and 1905 his work turned so aggressively chromatic that critics dubbed him and his circle the Fauves — wild beasts. He spent the next decade after 1906 tightening that wildness into something harder: flattened forms, decorative pattern, a rigorous new syntax. In 1917 he moved to Nice, and through the 1920s his work softened enough to win him praise as a guardian of French classical painting. After 1930 he simplified further, paring down to essentials. When illness stopped him from holding a brush, he turned to cut paper and produced a final body of collage work that proved he could still invent. He died in 1954, having spent more than half a century redrawing the expressive possibilities of colour and form.