马谛斯(1869～1954年)
Matisse, Henri(-Emile-Beno?t)
法国画家、雕刻家和插图版画家。原为律师行职员，後对艺术产生兴趣，在美术学校（école des Beaux-Arts）随莫罗（G. Moreau）一起学习。他在国际美术协会沙龙上展出了四幅作品，在政府购买了他的《读书的女子》（1895）後取得成功。他自信而富有冒险精神，曾尝试点彩画法，但最终放弃，转而学习自然的画作风格和随意的点彩画，也就是後来所谓的野兽主义。之後，他一直坚持野兽主义的画风。虽然作品主题大部分是家庭的和画像，仍展现了独特的地中海神韵。他也从事雕刻，一生留下了约六十幅作品。军械库展览会曾展出他的十三幅画作。1917年迁往法国里维耶拉（Riviera），虽然在那里他的作品不那麽大胆，但仍很多产。1939年後以插图版画家活跃画坛，1947年发表《爵士乐》一书，是他对艺术和生命的回顾，中间穿插了很多精美的「剪刀画」，即用色纸剪贴的图案。他生命的最後十三年大多在疾病中度过，多亏有道明会修女照顾，使他得以设计出旺斯宏伟的玫瑰圣母堂（1948～1951）。最着名的作品有《生命的喜悦》（1906）、《红色画室》（1915）、《钢琴课》（1916）和《舞蹈1》、《舞蹈2》（1931～1933）。
English version：
1869～1954年
Matisse, Henri(-Emile-Beno?t)
French painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. He was a law clerk when he became interested in art. After study with Gustave Moreau at the école des Beaux-Arts, he exhibited four paintings at the Salon and scored a triumph when the government bought his Woman Reading (1895). Self-confident and venturesome, he experimented with pointillism but eventually abandoned it in favor of the swirls of spontaneous brushwork and riots of color that became known as Fauvism. He remained a Fauve to the end. Though his subjects were largely domestic and figurative, his works exhibit a distinctive Mediterranean verve. He also took up sculpture, and would produce some 60 pieces during his lifetime. The Armory Show exhibited 13 of his paintings. In 1917 he moved to the French Riviera, where his paintings became less daring but his output remained prodigious. After 1939 he became increasingly active as a graphic artist, and in 1947 published Jazz, a book of reflections on art and life with brilliantly colored illustrations made by “drawing with scissors”: the motifs were pasted together after being cut out of sheets of colored paper. He was ill during most of his last 13 years; as thanks to the Dominican nuns who cared for him, he designed the magnificent Chapelle du Rosaire at Vence (1948-51). His well-known paintings include Joy of Life (1906), The Red Studio (1915), Piano Lesson (1916), and The Dance I and II (1931-33).