Henri Matisse

...high-speed sequences that might lead to nano-medicines in the future. "Between the Folds" opens with an epigraph from painter Henri Matisse: "Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited...

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...the Baltimore Museum of Art, and "Editions With Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns" at the National Gallery of Art. The bad news? The Matisse show feels more like drawings, and the Johns show feels more like paintings. That's really...

In this article: Jasper Johns, Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Baltimore

...including two versions of a 1900-1903 etching and a 1944 lithograph. What's interesting is that, as closely and as tellingly as Matisse was able to peer into his subjects' faces -- even his own -- he was self-conscious when someone else...

In this article: Brassai and Baltimore Museum of Art

...The museum shop offers gifts based on recent exhibits at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive. See publisher Taschen's take on Matisse, enjoy Poe-inspired Victorian Goth jewelry and round out shopping with brunch at Gertrude's.

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...himself an accomplished painter, who nurtured the boy's talent and, in giving him as a prize a slim volume of Van Gogh, changed his life. Matisse, Magritte, Dubuffet, St Exupery, Botticelli all glimmer through the work, but Van Gogh is...

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...up sex in art from the furtive, neurotic business of the previous century A confidently carnal painting ... Blue Nude (1907), by Henri Matisse. Photograph: Francis G. Mayer/Corbis Something happened to artists at the dawn of the 20th...

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...menu. With the burger flipper, it's the cheapest, fattiest and also most addictive foods imaginable." Other works include takes on Henri Matisse's Dance, Renaissance paintings of the arrow-pierced Saint Sebastian and Diego Velazquez's...

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...mistress, Francoise Gilot, asked Matisse how he had conveyed such joie de vivre with a certain picture. Matisse replied that he believed a work of art should intensify 'all the feelings likely to enrich the inner life of whoever looks...

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...and Japanese prints. A story often told about Brody involved the couple's visit to France in 1953 to commission a work by Henri Matisse for their house. They did not like the maquette, or paper cut-out, of the artwork he proposed for...

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...2009, Auckland Art Gallery announced a promised gift of 15 works of art through its Foundation, including paintings by Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin and Mondrian from New York art collectors and philanthropists Julian and Josie...

In this article: Pablo Picasso, Julian Robertson, New Zealand, Auckland, Andre Derain, and Paul Gauguin