Martuni
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Markham
Gabcikovo Dam
photo studio
Flower Piece fg
Nuoro
A Family Group in a Landscape
la Cervara -11-
Platres
Bathsheba Receiving David-s Letter
Apollo and Marsyas
San Cristoforo, San Michele and Murano,
JONES, Thomas
Portrait of General John A. Sutter
Baxter
The Abandoned Town -19-
Capriccio with the Colosseum
Costa Mesa
The Watermill
Wivenhoe Park, Essex
The Marquise de Pompadour
Laporte
Madonna and Child
The Last Supper sgu
Caryatid -39-
Portrait of Philip IV of Spain in Brown
Portrait of Agostino Barbarigo wr
animal video
Jacobus Vrel
Helene Fourment and Her Children,Claire-
The Vampire
The Goldfinch
The Lagoon with Boats, Gondolas, and Raf
Into the Sunset
The Virgin and Child -05-
View of Genoa
The Resurrection of Lazarus -05-
Deposition
Bolu
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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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