The Grief of the Pasha
James Smetham
Venus and Adonis, detail AR
Piero pollaiolo
Still-Life with Musical Instruments and
still life with rice
George Tirrell
Hambletonian,Rubbing down
Amo
James Monroe
La Pia de- Tolomei
A Village
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Market Scene
View of London- The Thames from Somerset
Innocent Allies
Portrait of Eugene Murer
lake mirror
Epiphany df
Farm View
ZEILLER, Jakob Johann
Deergrove
Portrait of Fam Six -33-
Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice
Merry Company ioy
The Merry Fiddler
Mary f
vincent van gogh time line
framed wall picture
Saint anthony of padua in prayer
Metropolitan Museum of Art,Manila
La La at the Cirque Fernando
Fighting camels
The Glorification of the Cross
Discovery of the Body of Holofernes -36-
Edinburg
Abraham Receives the Three Angels
Au Bord de l-Eau,Bennecourt
Crucifixion dgg
Sevan
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Henri Matisse:
French Fauvist Painter and Sculptor, 1869-1954
Henri Matisse is considered the most important French artist of the 20th century and, along with Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential modernist painters of the last century. Matisse began studying drawing and painting in the 1890s. A student of the masters of Post-Impressionism, Matisse later made a reputation for himself as the leader of a group of painters known as Les Fauves. An ironic label given to them by a critic, the name reflected Matisse's aggressive strokes and bold use of primary colors. In 1905 Matisse gained sudden fame with three paintings, including Woman with the Hat, purchased by the wealthy American ex-patriot Gertrude Stein. Beyond painting, he worked with lithographs and sculpture, and during World War II he did a series of book designs. Later in his career he experimented with paper cutouts and designed decorations for the Dominican chapel in Vence, France. Along with Picasso,
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