BASSA, Ferrer
The Embarkation for Cythera
The Beggar Known as the Club-foot -05-
Sawpit
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows2
Towards the Lido
In the Country
La Tempesta
Henry Burn
Still Life with Fruit and Flowers
home improvement
Woods Hole
The Barque of Dante
Wide River Landscape
CAMASSEI, Andrea
Make into Hay
Reclining Nude
Winter Scene at Yselmuiden
William Powell Frith
Kansas
JORDAN, Esteban
Portrait of the Artist at His Easel gu
Lucerne,Switzerland -37-
View of the Molo towards the Santa Maria
A Country Wedding
COUWENBERGH, Christiaen van
Armida-s Attempt to Kill Herself
Earlimart
Noordholland
The Music Party dhd
The Portrait of John
Venus and Adonis
Joshua Ordering the Sun to Stop in its C
Taormina
Self-Portrait with Pipe and Straw Hat -n
Tyty
Tahitian Women
Pressman
Pater, Jean-Baptiste
Triptych dj
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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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