Henri Matisse — Statement Trio | Open Window, St. Tropez & Peonies | Fauvist Art Print

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Henri Matisse — Statement Trio | Open Window, St. Tropez & Peonies | Fauvist Art PrintHenri Matisse (18691954) was one of the defining figures of Western modern art the supreme colourist, the artist who showed that colour itself, liberated from description, could carry the full weight of a painting's meaning. From his Fauvist canvases of St. Tropez and Collioure to the cut paper works of his final years, his art maintained an extraordinary consistency of intent: to create an art of pleasure, light, and formally achieved serenity. His

His portrait of the Marchesa Casati — the most painted woman of the 20th century — captures its subject's legendary extravagance with characteristic force

Between 1830 and 1836 he painted over 600 portraits and tribal scenes among more than 50 nations — an irreplaceable ethnographic and artistic record of cultures already being destroyed by westward expansion

and small creatures rendered with extraordinary delicacy and emotional restraint

9th–10th century CE) is one of the most iconic objects in the history of Islamic art — a Quran written in gold Kufic script on vellum dyed a deep indigo blue

Moholy-Nagy

and sunlit façades transformed the mundane into something charged with alienation and beauty

flowering fields — reveal an equally extraordinary painter who sought in nature the same visual density and pattern as in his figure work

Kawase Hasui (1883–1957) was a master of shin-hanga

economical in form

the Victoria & Albert Museum

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and architect who co-founded the De Stijl movement alongside Piet Mondrian

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