Braswell
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Jean-Antoine Watteau
The woman making hats
Bristol Channel from Penarth,Evening
creative framed home memory project scra
Poppy Field
Siyazan
Saint jerome in penitence
Thomas King Hanna
The Game of the Golden Cushion -detail-
Lazurus Breaks His Fast
Kasaan
Portrait of Pietro Bembo
funky
Branch
The Resolution in the Marquesas
round
The Castle Rock,Borrowdale
Lockey, Rowland
Spring
Interior with Children at Play
Near the sunset
St Luke Prato,cathedral of Santo Stefano
oil lamp reproduction
Alphonse Daudet and his Daughter
Deventer
Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and
John Duncan
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
The Man is at Sea -nn04-
Transfiguration of Christ se
a view overlooking a city,roman ruins an
St.Francis in Prayer
William Allen Wall
The Musical Contest
La Robe de Boudoir
The rods of house
Landscape with the Walk to Emmaus -22-
Alphonse leroy -02-
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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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