This was published 11 years ago. Matisse's final works a cut above As a stunning new London show reveals, Matisse’s cut-outs weren’t just pretty shapes, writes Richard Dorment.

As a Matisse show opens in Sydney, the Centre Pompidou’s Dr Aurélie Verdier says the artist was as much a risk-taker as his rival Picasso. And wore tweed well.

In 1949, while Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was still in the South of France cutting shapes out of colored paper, Etta Cone from Baltimore gave 600 of his works to the Baltimore Museum of Art.Over ...

Revise different shapes and how they are used as part of National 5 Art and Design. BBC Homepage. Skip to content; ... Icarus Plate, Henri Matisse, 1947, paper cut out and gouache, ...

And if that narrow, pointed white shape rising from the bottom edge of the 12-foot-wide canvas is indeed a serpent, ... ‘Matisse: Radical Invention,1913-1917,’ Art Institute of Chicago, ...

What objects in particular? Naturally, there's no better way to celebrate the flower-loving artist than with vases. These vessels have also, after all, appeared in countless Matisse paintings ...

“The Red Studio” (1911), by Henri Matisse. ... lines and shapes that are right there for us to see, rather than for any scene that we might look beyond them to understand.

When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting "The Joy of Life," he was 36. Review: 'Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs' follows artist's paper trail - Los Angeles Times ...

Matisse prints are a new decorating trend in home decor and design, so we talked to interior decorators, vintage dealers, and art critics about what makes them so popular.

“Matisse: Radical Invention, ... as well as with geometric shapes and daringly austere compositions. By 1917, however, he had moved to Nice and re-emerged as another kind of painter, ...

For Henri Matisse, the first years of World War II were a watershed for many reasons–all of them miserable. In 1939 his wife Amélie, who suspected that he was having an affair, ended their long ...