LOO, Carle van
Riverbank
Madonna with the Yarnwinder tw
Kedainiai
Venus Consoling Love
Bigbearlake
Cloud Study
The Annunciation ttt
master of the Holy Kindred
Ozark
Man Reading by Lamplight
Saint-Andre en Morvan -11-
Gothic Cathedral by the Waterside -450
St Ildefonso Receiving the Chasuble from
Anna Alma-Tadema,The Drauwing Room at To
Osteria Ravello Italy
Modonna and Child -36-
Mount Lebanon
art sun tzu war
The House of Cards
Saint George Killing the Dragon
Still Life with Orange and Book
Lorenzo Ghiberti,Sacrifice of Isaac -36-
Madonna and Child with Saints
Lane near a Small Town
Philip Leslie Hale
The Springtime, The Haymaking
Graph paul
Self Portrait With Bandaged Ear
Crossing a Creek er
Madame Recamier -05-
The Young David
Denver
Lion with a Rabbit
Deposition
COORTE, Adriaen
The Stoning of St.Stephen 02
Monastery Garden
Sewall'spoint
Jack wilkinson Smith
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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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