Don't miss “Matisse—Invitation to the Voyage,” a retrospective that showcases over seventy works chronicling the artist's groundbreaking creative evolution.
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 ...
Henri Matisse's love of painting began when he contracted appendicitis and was on bed rest. After studying in St. Tropez, he joined a group called the “Fauves” who used color in a very non-traditional ...
he said. Each of his odalisques cries “Matisse!” Dr. Albert Barnes, who collaborated with Miss Violette de Mazia, of his Foundation’s teaching staff, on “The Art of Henri Matisse,” one ...
Narrator: The French artist Henri Matisse painted Dance (First Version) in 1909 as a study for a mural by the same name. He used oil paint on canvas. The work measures about eight-and-a-half feet high ...
In 2018–19, MoMA collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab on a project using machine learning to identify artworks in installation photos. That project has concluded, and works are now being ...
Matisse once said, “Painting the human figure is the best ... The poet Guillaume Apollinaire said it well: “Like the orange, Henri Matisse’s paintings are the fruit of dazzling light.” ...