Jan Van Eyck
Pieta3
Altavista
Hydepark
Ecce Homo
Niantic
Landscape with Paris and Oenone fdg
King Charles II xcg
At Hailsham,Storm Approaching
Egersund
Giovanni Biliverti
Bierstadt, Albert
Peasant-s head
Fortcollins
Path in the Forest
Ice Scene fff
The Goldfinch dfgh
female photo
Hendrick Leys
The Calmady Children
Sunset Venice
Bloomingdale
creature deep in in live monster sea sea
WITTE, Emanuel de
The Animals Entering the Ark fggf
Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam sf
Fortitude
Martin Schongauer
VIVIEN, Joseph
Venus in the Forge of Vulcan -df01-
intensive craftsmanship
Vision of St Francis of Assisi fg
Yvonne and Christine Lerolle Playing the
The Mill of Alphonse Daudet at Fonteviei
Hicks, Thomas
Castana
La Seine a Croisset
Brighton Beach
The Baptism of the Eunuch
St Dominic Reuscitates Napoleone Orsini
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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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