Self-Portrait
Long Island Farmer Husking Corn
Ludolf Backhuysen
KONINCK, Philips
The Calm Sea
Merida
View of Montmartre,Paris
St Cecilia dt
The Blacksmith Shop
Taormina
Portrait of Ariosto
Francois Clouet
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Dutch
Madonna of St.Zachary
Elizabeth, Countess of Kildare
Edouard Castres
May 2,1808,in Madrid The Charge of the M
The Hop Pickers
Gibsonton
Altarpiece of the Annunciation
stretched painting
Nude
Jean-Laurent Mosnier
Triptych of Jan Des Trompes sdf
Padua- The Prato della Valle with Santa
Christ Entering Jerusalem
Benedick in the Arbor
Altarpiece of the Lamentation -detail- f
Salome
Seaside Gossips -37-
Return from Fishing Towing the Bark
stone sculpture
Garden of Eden ff
love image
Mrs Philip Thicknesse
Juniperhills
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Portrait of Jacopo Soranzo
Jacopo di Arcangelo called jacopo del se
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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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