A rising artist and Maryland native is using his work to examine one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. The exhibit, "Fratino and Matisse: To See This Light Again," is coming to the ...
How do works by two painters from two different eras compare when we see them side by side? With Rita Braver, we take a look: They were born nearly 50 years and an ocean apart. And while French ...
The painter Henri Matisse made his name by putting brush to canvas. And when chronic illness made painting difficult, he made his mark all over again by putting scissors to paper. Martha Teichner ...
Eclectic, personal, and vibrant, “Matisse in the Studio” at the Museum of Fine Arts offers you the chance to delve into Henri Matisse’s whimsical world of figures, patterns, and objects. The new ...
Alex Matisse grew up in the Northeastern United States, and being a Matisse meant being immersed in art. It’s what his family talked about at the dinner table; the walls of his home were full of ...
As the gray days and chilly weather of February drag on, you may find yourself longing for sunshine and sea air. Although the curators at the Saint Louis Art Museum can’t quite conjure a salty breeze, ...
Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...
Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...
Matisse’s The Painter and His Model—in the exhibition devoted to his work at the Eykyn Maclean Gallery in New York—is a candy box of a composition, a hymn to rococo excess. Set in a room in Nice ...
Henri Matisse started making his iconic cut-outs after an illness. But it was a special journey that inspired the form they would take. Alastair Sooke reports. Last month an important exhibition ...
Eclectic, personal, and vibrant, “Matisse in the Studio” at the Museum of Fine Arts offers you the chance to delve into Henri Matisse’s whimsical world of figures, patterns, and objects. The new ...