Don't miss “Matisse—Invitation to the Voyage,” a retrospective that showcases over seventy works chronicling the artist's groundbreaking creative evolution.
Spontaneous, visceral and alive, the cutouts are a magical hybrid-species, the visionary culmination of a lifetime’s mastery of drawing, painting and sculpture. For Matisse, who likened making ...
Today, he is back at his drawing and painting. He says he is not an ill man, merely one who has been mutilé, or wounded. Matisse mostly lives in bed and works there, generally in one or another ...
Hélène Leloup (b. 1927) is one of the art world’s true pioneers, bringing together a spirit of adventure, a detailed anthropological approach and deep knowledge to become one of the foremost ...
When Henri Matisse sent “Le Bonheur de vivre” to the 1906 Salon des Indépendants, he made it clear that the painting was meant to be a major statement—a “masterpiece.” It was the only ...
Matisse once said, “Painting the human figure is the best way for me to express what I might call my own particular religious feeling about life.” If only traditional religion were that free!
The prints on show at Beverley Art Gallery show work created by Matisse in the last few years of his life An exhibition of French artist Henri Matisse's famous cut-out art has gone on show in East ...
I find myself consumed with the later years of Henri Matisse, an artist his friend and rival Pablo Picasso dubbed “a magician.” Matisse wasn’t simply vital at the painful, disabled end of ...