Henri Matisse's love of painting began when he contracted appendicitis and was on bed rest. After studying in St. Tropez, he joined a group called the “Fauves” who used color in a very non-traditional ...

Modern artists like Picasso and Matisse turned away from the avant-garde experimental work of cubism and fauvism and instead favored classical nudes and interiors. The following decade resulted in the ...

Matisse: Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago highlights the ten paintings, five bronzes, forty-one works on paper, and one textile by Henri Matisse in ...

The Des Moines Art Center has plenty of interesting works in its permanent collection. Now one is on the road, stopping first in New York City and then across the Atlantic to Switzerland before ...