The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse, by Patricia MacLachlan and illustrated by Hadley Hooper, caught me by complete surprise. While perusing the new children’s books at our ...

Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York) Then, in two beautiful works of art screen-printed on linen and known as Oceania, the Sky and Oceania, the Sea, in which white birds and sea ...

The birds are resting, serene. But, despite the patterned pandemonium around them, I hear the thump of their fragile heartbeats. About Matisse, John Berger once wrote: “He clashed his colors ...

Matisse believed he’d reached the point where ... Then we are sunbathers lounging on the deck. And then we are birds, hovering overhead. At the juncture of two walls, one vertical blue corner ...

Matisse agreed, adding that the mural “is ... through which eyes and mouths drift like birds. Conflating nature, Modernist abstraction and our classical past, Masks is a dreamscape as brilliant ...

[Photo/Courtesy of UCCA Center for Contemporary Art] With 30,000 early-bird tickets snapped up before its opening on Thursday, Matisse by Matisse, the first exhibition of French modern art master ...

An exhibition of French artist Henri Matisse's famous cut-out art has gone on show in East Yorkshire. The Beverley Art Gallery exhibition features 35 posthumous prints of works he created in the ...