Gascity
The Council of the Gods
The Artist, Emile Bernard
The Sunny South -nn02-
Leslie
The Great Fall,Niagara
Angels
Lanett
Eldara
John Crome
The Servant Girl
Portstlucie-riverpark
Park Scene
Spain
The Birth of Venus
Thomas Cromwell
Landscape with a Young Fisherman
The Adoration of the Child
The Old Marketplace in Rouen and the Rue
Sandrock
The Last Judgement -detail- rdgt
The Blessed Damozel -28-
The State Hermitage Museum
Unalakleet
Still Life wtih Three Books -nn04-
Point Lobos Carmel
Mother earth
Hoar-Frost on the Ice -nn02
Gonzales Coques
Eastdublin
Landscape on the Banks of the Oise
The Fourteenth of July Celebration in Pa
The Summer, The Harvest
Elkriver
bazille frederic impressionism prophet
Venus, Cupid and Mars
LOO, Carle van
Southyubacity
BRAY, Jan de
The Miraculous Source
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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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