Detail of The Spinners or The Fable of A
Madonna Litta -detail sdg
Agasse, Jacques-Laurent
The Irish Famine
Columbusjunction
Melancholia
Indianshores
The Embarkation for Cythera
An architectural capriccio with figures
chiaroscuro
original
cs2 landscape nature outdoor photo photo
The Card Players -nn03-
La Monstrua Desnuda
Arnauts Playing Chess
Trees adn Undergrowth -nn04-
Newwindsor
Portrait of a lady,half-length,wearing a
Madonna del Sacco,d-apres Andrea del Sar
Details of The Little Garden of Paradise
Merle, Hugues
Portrait of Samuel Ampzing
Bean Feast
wood framed mirror
Charles I- King of England at the Hunt d
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Venus and Adonis R
St Florian -Griffoni Polyptych- dsf
Sir Peter Parker
Early Spring
Grainstack in Overcast Weather,Snwo Effe
City
The Presentation in the Temple
Cantwell
After the Bath
A Cock, Hens and Chicks
Payne, Edgar Alwin
animal control
Madonna with Four Saints -08-
View of Leiden
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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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