Cezanne-esque painting, becomes “Still Life with Purro II” (1904–05), an abstract haze of paint daubs in the garish yellows and reds and soft blues that Matisse became known for. It’s a ...

Moreover, Picasso’s still life, made at the same time ... the poet Guillaume Apollinaire said Matisse had reinvented voluptuousness in painting. Abstract as it is, with its masklike face and ...

The US abstract installation artist Judy ... to enter a relatively free state of creativity. Matisse returned to still-life and model paintings aiming to evoke pure emotions, no longer beleaguered ...

So, if we look frankly, is it still OK to like Matisse’s harem fantasies? Matisse's 1926 painting "Reclining Odalesque ... for the last decade or so of his life. He painted less and less ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Pablo Picasso in his Paris studio in 1939. Credit: NGA Matisse in his Paris studio in 1948.Credit: NGA When Pablo Picasso and Henri ...

Henri Matisse’s large painting ... quoted in the piece—seven paintings, three sculptures, and a decorated ceramic plate—cohabit with furniture and still-life elements.

Did you know that cherries and strawberries represented the souls of men? Or that a dragonfly could be the devil? These beautiful works say much more than you think, writes Cath Pound. Still-life ...

“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of a reputation, a prisoner of success,” wrote Henri Matisse in his book Jazz (1947). It was with this book ...

Matisse was ... Pablo Picasso, Still life [Nature mort] 1924 The creative tension between them also was one of the case studies in Sebastian Smee’s 2016 book, The Art of Rivalry (the others ...

Matisse chose a Picasso still life, a tight, tough, awkward little painting of a lemon and some ... or a group of artists—Cubists, Futurists, Abstract Expressionists. Hence the slightly déjà ...