John Masey Wright
Several Window
UpnorCastle,Kent -47-
Farinata degli Uberti -08-
Sleeping Christ with Zacharias - John th
Family Portrait
abstract digital art
Bean Feast
animal love
The Ferry Boat dh
Holy Family fghgjhg
A Welsh Funeral
Anne Arundel
Fire -detail- vzdf
Henri Laurens assis -38-
Pause for Thought
Portrait of a man,Three-quarter length,w
mikasa monet
Portrait of Dante Alighieri -36-
The Holy Family fg
Twilight, Short arbiter twixt day and ni
Interior of a Church
Autoportrait au beret
Francesco Furini,Lorenzo the Magnificent
Waikoloavillage
Skaters on the Moat by the Walls
Kalmar
Stonehenge
Trail of the Shod Horse -43-
Evangelist Johannes
Petrov-Vodkin, Kozma
Landscape with Dead Tree -13-
Night -19-
Symphony on White No 2 Little White Girl
The Sermon on the mount
Interno di Harem -32-
St.Michael Victorious,known as the Great
Transfiguration of Christ se
Charteroak
Young man with a skull
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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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