Painting with scissors How Matisse bowed out in a riot of colorful shapes and patterns
Henri Matisse (1869 1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make art. With what he called une seconde vie, a second life, he embarked on a remarkable collage period, cutting and pasting pieces of colored paper into gouaches decoupees of birds, plants, flowers, and the female form.
Painting with scissors How Matisse bowed out in a riot of colorful shapes and patterns
A painter of dramatic battles as much as erotic mythologies, Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a key figure in the 16th-century art world and a flag bearer for Baroque color, motion, and sensuality. His prolific oeuvre includes altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, historical paintings, as well as his famous, bountiful nudes.
A painter of dramatic battles as much as erotic mythologies, Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a key figure in the 16th-century art world and a flag bearer fo...
The most complete study of Salvador Dali's painted works yet. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret located previously inaccessible works that epitomize Dali's depictions of the subconscious and its strange workings. Complete with updated captions, this opulent edition contextualizes Dali's paintings with his own writings,...
The most complete study of Salvador Dali's painted works yet. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret located previously inaccessi...
