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Henri Matisse. Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French: [ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.
Daedalus, Icarus, Queen Pasiphaë, and two of her attendants in a Roman mosaic from Zeugma, Commagene The Fall of Icarus. Antique fresco from Pompeii, 40–79 AD. Icarus's father Daedalus, a very talented Athenian craftsman, built a labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus is a painting in oil on canvas measuring 73.5 by 112 centimetres (28.9 in × 44.1 in) now in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. It was long thought to be by the leading painter of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra) (French: "Nu bleu, Souvenir de Biskra"), an early 1907 oil painting on canvas by Henri Matisse, is located at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of the Cone Collection. [1] Matisse painted the nude when a sculpture he was working on shattered. He later finished the sculpture which is entitled Reclining Nude I ...
Indonesian painting has a very long tradition and history in Indonesian art, though because of the climatic conditions very few early examples survive, Indonesia is home to some of the oldest paintings in the world. The earliest Indonesian paintings were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, such as the petroglyphs found in places like in ...
Head of a Woman, from 'Les miroirs profonds: Henri Matisse', Paris, Pierre à Feu: 1947 Wood engraving on paper 24.13 cm x 20 cm Ann Arbor University of Michigan Museum of Art [22] Pierre à Feu, bookcover for "Les miroirs profonds: Henri Matisse", Paris, Pierre: 1947 Color lithograph on paper 24.29 cm x 20.96 cm Ann Arbor
Icarus is a character in Greek Mythology who fell to his death when the sun melted the wax holding together the wings he was using to fly. The Fall of Icarus is a common subject in art, and may refer to: A mural by Pablo Picasso (1958) in the UNESCO headquarters, Paris. An art installation by Peter Greenaway from 1986, with music by Michael Nyman.
The Blue Nudes is a series of collages, and related color lithographs, by Henri Matisse, made from paper cut-outs depicting nude figures in various positions.Restricted by his physical condition after his surgery for stomach cancer, Matisse began creating art by cutting and painting sheets of paper by hand; these Matisse viewed as independent artworks in their own right.