Lahser High School - Leadership, Honor & Scholarship

Matisse Project
En Hommage a Matisse.

In participation with World Foreign Language Week, Mr. Odom’s French 100 class created 24 colored transparent panels based on the works of Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Henri Matisse is often regarded as the most important French painter of the 20th century. Matisse along with Pablo Picasso dominated the art of the 20th century. As the leader of the Fauvist movement; which is a style using pure brilliant color, Matisse pursued the expressiveness of color through the depiction of domestic and figurative subjects.

These works reproduced are examples of Matisse’s
paintings and paper cut collages,
a technique he embraced later in his career.
The En Hommage a Matisse panels, each a celebration of color and light, are installed in the windows of the north stairwell of the World Language / Business wing. The sample at right are only 5 of the 24 outstanding pieces submitted by the students
of Mr. Odom's French 100 class.
matisse student art
-- Come Take a Look --
The Art is displayed in the North Stairwell of the
Foreign Language Wing
Student Artists:
  Emily Adams
Elizabeth Armstrong
Claire Churchwell
Peter Coughenour
Alicia Curtis
James Dubos*
Hayley Goldenthal
Michael Hafeli
Maheshwar Hariharan
Elias Karaboutis*
Venkat Koneru
Myeka Naylor
Julienne Parks
Lucille Przybylski
 Benjamin Rode
Sara Sater
Sarah Seransky*
Walker Smith
Christina Stilianos*
Moritz Wollenhaupt
Grace Yamin*

Installation:
Peter Coughenour
Michael Hafeli
Peter Khoury
Walter Smith
Ben Rode
* student who have work displayed on the right

Project Consultants:
Carol Campbell and Michelle York
This project was a part of World Foreign Language Week on March 6th, 2006
Languages: Bridges to Communication