Thinking about death
Baroque
John Vanderlyn
HEEMSKERCK, Maerten van
Montague
SCHOOTEN, Floris Gerritsz. van
Mme.Eugene-Felix Lecourtois -san14-
Interior of the Church of St Bavon at Ha
Callahan
Yosemite Winter Scene
Matrat s Boatyard,Moret-sur-Loing
Moses-s Journey into Egypt a
St.Peter Revives Tbitha
Unwelcome Confidence -23-
Midville
St Jerome and the Lion
Adak
The Madonna of Foligno
Jules Tavernier
Landscape with a Stone Bridge dyu
The Raising of Drusiana,Cappella Peruzzi
Pilgrimage to Cythera
Jaunpiebalga
Frederick Goodall,R.A
Breaking Home Ties
The Tribute Money -08-
Amagon
Republika Srpska
The Merry Go Round
The Sermon of St Stephen dftg
Grand Manan Island,Bay of Fundy
non-objective art
Monna Vanna
Shelley
Portrait of Countess Daru
Madame Marsollier and her Daughter
victor
The Cliff at Etretat after the Storm -09
Treasureisland
Hare f
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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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