French artist Henri Matisse never lets you forget you’re looking at a painting. He fills every square inch of his canvas with color and pattern so no point is any more or less important than any other ...
Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne I saw work by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) ...
Painting was ecstasy for Henri Matisse. Color worked on his eyes and gut like a self-renewing first crush. But between about 1905 and 1917, he was on the rack. His experiments on canvas broke so ...
It’s impossible for contemporary audiences to experience those startlingly original modernist works that altered the course of art history the way viewers did when they were first exhibited. We can’t ...
An extremely overdue exhibition exploring the life and work of Olga Meerson sheds new light on the star student of Henri Matisse.
Some of the artist’s greatest paintings were inspired by views through windows — or in this case, a windshield. It’s not exactly classic Matisse. But I can’t begin to tell you how much I love this ...
Perhaps little known, but often shown? “The fact remains that, until now, the public did not know much about her,” Barat-Mabille clarifies. “One reason might be that Marguerite herself was quite a ...
The Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art has long been a required destination for anyone wanting to understand, or simply enjoy, the art of Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Formed by two Baltimore ...
PHILADELPHIA — Civilization had a total breakdown in the 1930s, which also happened to be the decade when Henri Matisse became most himself. “Matisse in the 1930s,” a groundbreaking exhibition at the ...