Charles I Queen Henrietta Maria and Char
Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
Vase of Flowers on a Socle
western oil painting
Watsonville
Morrison
Medulla
Margaret, Duchess of Parma
Lineville
Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivio
greek mythological creature
artist chronicle diary great impressioni
Olivier, Woldemar Friedrich
Shrine of the Visitation dfg
Table
James I -25-
Moon-light,wolf -43-
Miskolc
Kahlo painted herself in my Nurse and i
Prats, Santiago Rusinol
The Destruction of the Temple at Jerusal
Samuel Hieronymous Grimm
Old Fort at Antibes
Lancing a Whale
Olivehurst
Pakruojis
Woman at a Window -22-
strips
The Confession
Carev Dvor
Pieta -detail-
David, Jacques-Louis
An Early Start for Market -43-
Meseista
The Old Homestead
The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
La favorite dechue -32-
jerzee monet
Portrait of Princess Theodule de Grammon
Fortgreely
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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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