Woodlawn
JONES, Thomas
Girl with a Pearl Earring -detail- wet
Fairoaks
Lakewales
The Entombment
Ouray
The Chariot of Apollo
Frans Pourbus
Lighthouse
Cedarrapids
Portrait of Maria Salviati
Schone Maria
A boat passing a lock
Landscape Composition-Italian Scenery -1
Landscape with Shepherds - The Pont Moll
Still Life with Ginger Pot
Lament for Christ Dead,with St Jerome,St
Portrait of a Young Peasant -nn04-
Paul Cezanne
Spring
What are
edging landscape
THe Seamstress
A Summer Evening
Pieta -The Dead Christ Supported by Two
Saggart
abstract architecture
La Sente du chou
John mulcaster carrick
St Dominic sdg
back stretcher
Hercules and Omphale -05-
AMIGONI, Jacopo
Green Parasol
Portrait of Julia Makovskaya, The Artist
Niagara
Maufra Maxime Emile Louis
Temptations of St Anthony ga
Interior of an inn
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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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