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This book published on the occasion of the Exhibition "Matisse in Morocco", National Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 March - 3 June 1990 ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20 June - 4 September 1990 ; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 28 September - 20 November 1990 ; The State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 15 December 1990 - 15 February 1991. This catalogue reproduces Matisse's 23 Morocco paintings in color, 12 of them never before seen...
23) Matisse's garden
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One day, Henri Matisse cut a small bird out of a piece of white paper. It was a simple shape, but he liked the way it looked and didnt want to throw it away, so he pinned it to the wall of his room. But the bird looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it, and before he knew it, he had transformed his walls into larger-than-life gardens filled with brightly coloured plants and animals and shapes of all sizes. Featuring colourful...
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This volume explains the works of Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Matisse was a French artist, known primarily as a painter and for his use of color and his fluid and original draftsmanship. The colorful, painterly, uplifting, and often joyous works of Henri Matisse are critical in the history of modern art. Throughout his many years as a painter, the celebrated artist kept returning to one particular subject -- the windowed interior. This work analyzes...
33) Henri Matisse
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A brief biography of Henri Matisse accompanies fifteen color reproductions and critical interpretations of his works.
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When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century. The cross-fertilization...
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"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists -- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a new beginning, a break that led onto new creative...
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The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How many of us can connect the dots of influences and inspiration...