French artist Henri Matisse never lets you forget you’re looking at a painting. He fills every square inch of his canvas with color and pattern so no point is any more or less important than any ...

It Speaks to Me: Lari Pittman on Henri Matisse’s ‘The Black Shawl’ at the Norton Simon. ... with the figure serving as an armature for color, pattern, texture, movement, transparency, opacity.

Henri Matisse encouraged his favorite model to become a painter like him. ... A “pattern,” too, was created by the doubling of the two figures in the armoire’s mirror.

Matisse takes pattern and decoration beyond the realm of surface design. ... are photographs of Matisse by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Man Ray, Langdon Coburn, ...

When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting "The Joy of Life ... Pinning patterns and designs made from cut paper to textile looms was a manufacturing process in use for ...

Many seeking to satisfy a craving for the artwork of Henri Matisse need go no further than Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation. With 59 paintings by Matisse it is one of the largest collections in the ...

Alastair Sooke explains how Henri Matisse made his greatest work without even lifting a brush – and why the artist's Chapel of the Rosary in Vence reduced him to tears ...

On Thursday, The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced that it would host a major exhibition of paintings, sculptures and works on paper. The exhibition, influenced by French artist Henri Matisse ...

Matisse wanted his finished canvases in these years to carry evidence of the process of their making.So “The Piano Lesson,” which is more than eight feet high, is marked all over by scouring ...