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Henri Matisse

1869 - 1954

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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso, as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.The intense colourism of the works he painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves (French for "wild beasts"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri Matisse has received more than 6,073,982 page views. His biography is available in 145 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 140 in 2019). Henri Matisse is the 15th most popular painter (up from 18th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from France (up from 26th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Painter.

Henri Matisse is most famous for his use of color and expressive brushstrokes in his paintings.

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  • 83.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 145

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Henri Matisse has had the most page views in the with 638,864 views, followed by French (182,197), and Japanese (169,855). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (31,650.00%), Hausa (633.18%), and Cantonese (231.84%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Henri Matisse ranks 15 out of 2,023. Before him are Edvard Munch, Peter Paul Rubens, Frida Kahlo, Caravaggio, Francisco Goya, and Johannes Vermeer. After him are Paul Cézanne, Sandro Botticelli, El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Paul Gauguin, and Piet Mondrian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Henri Matisse ranks 2. Before him is Mahatma Gandhi. After him are Grigori Rasputin, André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Neville Chamberlain, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Gustaf Dalén, Karl Haushofer, Emma Goldman, and Fritz Pregl. Among people deceased in 1954, Henri Matisse ranks 2. Before him is Frida Kahlo. After him are Alan Turing, Enrico Fermi, Heinz Guderian, Robert Capa, Princess Märtha of Sweden, Colette, Getúlio Vargas, Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, Alcide De Gasperi, and André Derain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Matisse ranks 19 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis XV of France (1710), Molière (1622), Charles de Gaulle (1890), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), and Alain Delon (1935). After him are John Calvin (1509), Paul Cézanne (1839), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Napoleon II (1811), and Auguste Comte (1798).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Henri Matisse ranks 2. Before him are Claude Monet (1840). After him are Paul Cézanne (1839), Paul Gauguin (1848), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Édouard Manet (1832), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864).

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