By Jodi Levine “There are always flowers for those who want to see them,” Henri Matisse said. Even in this newspaper — just glue a skewer between two pieces of colored or painted newspaper ...

Searching for inspiration, I recalled a favorite series of paintings done by French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) while he was in North Africa in 1912 and 1913. Matisse traveled to Tangier ...

But not until the recent opening of “Van Gogh, Manet and Matisse: The Art of the Flower” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has any major American exhibit examined just how dramatically this ...

“Little Matisse is about convenience, fun and learning. We exist because kids want to make art!” Keramaty wrote. “In their own home, alongside a professional art educator, children ...

That certainly holds true for Henri Matisse's "Ivy in Flower." Because of its sensitivity to light, it spends much of its time carefully tucked away in the Dallas Museum of Art's storage space.