Matisse

Fine Art Friday: Guess the Artist, Part 2

3 February 2012
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Last week for Fine Art Friday, I shared my love of details within a master’s painting and a little art history game we play to test our visual memory and knowledge of an artist’s touch. I shared close-ups of seven different paintings each on display at the Centre Pompidou in Paris* and asked you to [...]

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Fine Art Friday: Wild Beasts in the Riviera

25 March 2011
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There is a moment in the history of art in Paris when painting suddenly unleashes itself from social constraint in splashes of thick, vibrant colors and fluid forms. “C’est Donatello dans la cage aux fauves!” – Louis Vauxcelles The change flipped the known world of Paris upside down; people stood in shock in front of [...]

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Matisse and Baudelaire

22 November 2010
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Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon coeur amoureux; Retiens les griffes de ta patte, Et laisse-moi plonger dans tes beaux yeux; Mêlés de métal et d’agate. Many artists have personalized the iconic poems by Baudelaire. Published just three years after the birth of Henri Matisse, Matisse would have grown up well aware of the controversy [...]

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