Midas and Bacchus -08-
Otto Karl Kirberg
Rome The Arch of Septimius Severus -25-
Basket of Flowers
Des Moines
Quba
Aseri
mirror picture
Ernest Cassel
The Cascades,Tivoli -05-
EYCK, Hubert van
Francois Bocion
Wenona
Vitomirica
Garden in Bloom, Arles
Fohn the Baptist preaching -33-
Petrov-Vodkin, Kozma
The Grand Canal at San Geremia -detail-
Killen
St.John the Baptist Preaching
plant asexual reproduction
View of Vanves to the Left of the Gate o
flowers
James Tissot
The Adoration of the Shepherds -05-
The woman indoor
Seacoast near Dosseringen -22-
The Rialto Bridge in Venice -detail- ag
Details of Bushes
King Charles II -08-
Apples, Hat, and Tree
Fidelia Bridges
The City of London from the Thames by Mo
master of St-Germain-des-Pres
Ocnita
oils
Eastrichmondheights
Redmond
Spring Landscape
THe School near the Babies-Sharouri,Cair
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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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