Titled “The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists”, it compares the French Fauvist’s use of color, composition, and pattern to three Japanese printmakers: Kikugawa Eizan ...

In 1930, Henri Matisse, one of the giants of 20th-Century ... alluring female models in interior studio setups, using vivid patterns and sparkling colours lit by the Mediterranean light.

I love the boldness of the line, the color and the combination of patterns, which come from Matisse's synthesis of global influences as well as high and low visual culture. Photography by ...

Barnes (1872-1951) assembled a collection of about 900 paintings—among numerous other objects—a panoply that includes 59 works by Henri Matisse ... rich variations of pattern and texture.

(Emma Lee/WHYY) For the last three weeks, the French modernist artist Henri Matisse, dead for 68 years ... interiors could be based on patterns. “Matisse used the making of the dance to lay new ...

It is one of the landmark paintings of the early 20th century: Henri Matisse's "The Red Studio," his depiction of his workroom filled with paintings and sculptures, even a plate, all of his own ...

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 ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity.

Painted as war raged, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is both sensuous and severe Henri Matisse painted this inexpressibly moving painting in the summer of 1916, in the early days of the Somme offensive ...