Henri Matisse

60 Years Of Light

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Alex Katz, Video, Kemper Museum, Lois Dodd, Rene Magritte, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Painting, Female Artists, Paul Cezanne, Slideexpand, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Lois Dodd is not interested in telling stories. Just as snapshots transport us back to forgotten feelings, physical states, and even temperatures, so ...

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'Origin of the Universe' Takes On Art History Greats

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Black Women, Mickalene Thomas, Video, Gustave Courbet, Foxy Brown, Slidepollajax, Black Artists, Female Artists, Female Gaze, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Mickalene Thomas' works range from paintings of fractured interior spaces to thought-provoking riffs on famous works of art, yet her themes remain con...

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Happy Birthday, Juan Gris!

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Juan Gris, Parisian-Artists, Video, Cubism, Art, Impressionism, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Contemporary Art, 20th Century Art, Paris, French Arts, John Russell, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Happy Birthday to Juan Gris! Known affectionately as the "third musketeer of cubism," Gris had the reputation of being a pupil to Picasso's master, bu...

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Jonas Wood's Unstable Interiors

Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: David Kordansky Gallery, Video, Abstract Painting, David Hockney, Slidepollajax, Pablo Picasso, Los Angeles Art Galleries, Jonas Wood David Kordansky, Painting, Jonas Wood, Henri Matisse, Roberta Smith, Arts News

Jonas Wood's works, in theory, are fairly straightforward. They are representational paintings of the spaces he inhabits, from his artist studio to hi...

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Tiny Paintings By Big Artists

Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Size Does Matter, Andy Warhol, Video, Paul Klee, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alberto Giacometti, Tiny Paintings, Joan Miro, Shaquille O'Neal, Xs Metropolitan Museum of Art, Slidepollajax, New York Art, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Oftentimes exhibitions are organized around artist, movement, location or theme. But rarely have we seen one organized around size. (Excluding Shaq's ...

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The Steins' Avant-Garde Collection Shows At The Met

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Juan Gris, Maurice Denis, Cubism, Tender Buttons, Jacques Lipchitz, Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henri Manguin, Elie Nadelman, Francis Picabia, André Masson, Metropolitan Museum of Art Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, UK Arts, Stein Salon, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Steins Collect, New York Art Exhibitions, Midnight in Paris, Met Steins Collect, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Marie Laurencin, Female Artists, Arts News

Anyone who has seen "Midnight In Paris" knows that the Stein house was the place to be if you were an aspiring artist, writer, musician or socialite. ...

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New York Art Dealer Charged In $4M Fraud

AP | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Robert Scott Cook, Auguste Renoir, Art Heist, Fine Art, Art Crimes, Picasso, Matisse, Art Dealer Charged, Henri Matisse, Fraud, Video, Art Fraud, Art Controversy, Pablo Picasso, Llc., Renoir, Arts News

NEW YORK — A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the o...

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New Year's Babies Throughout History

Linda Rosenkrantz | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: JD Salinger, Henri Matisse, People Born on New Years Day, Nameberry, Hank Greenberg, Dana-Andrews, Slidepollajax, New Years Baby Names, Famous People Born on New Year's Eve, Famous People Born on New Year, 2012 Baby Names, Sophie Okonedo, New Year Baby Names, Paul Revere, Xavier-Cugat, Betsy Ross, Parents News

If you're shopping for New Year's baby names, there are several possible ways to go... But you could also go down the namesake path, paying tribute to a notable bearer of a name you happen to like, one who entered the world on New Year's Eve or Day.

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Major French Museum To Dispatch Mobile Gallery

Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou Mobile, Patrick Bouchain, France, Pablo Picasso, Europe, Picasso, UK Arts, Olafur Eliasson, Leger, Chaumont, Henri Matisse, Home News

The Centre Pompidou Mobile, a travelling component of the French museum of modern and contemporary art, is set to launch in October, much to the delig...

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WATCH: 500 Years Of Artists Paint Women

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Edouard Manet, Kazimir Malevich, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Philip Scott Johnson, Rene Magritte, Gustav Klimt, Anders Zorn, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Morphing, Animation, Henri Matisse, Arts News

New to us at HuffPost Arts, Philip Scott Johnson's "500 Years Of Female Portraits In Western Art" is intriguing in its ability to trace how representa...

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PHOTOS: Ryan De La Hoz Channels Tim Burton And Matisse

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Symbolism, Canson Wet Paint, Ryan De La Hoz, Paint Grant, Award Winning Artist, Beautiful Decay, Contemporary Art, Tim Burton, De La Hoz, Beautiful/Decay, Henri Matisse, Arts News

(Via Beautiful/Decay.) The work of Ryan De La Hoz exists in a very particular world, a world comprising haunting, nostalgic paper cut-outs and draw...

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2nd Art Attack By Woman At DC Museum

AP | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Woman Attacks Painting, Weird d.c., Woman Attacks Matisse, Weird Washington, Susan Burns, National Gallery of Art, Woman Attack Art, Henri Matisse, Weird News News

WASHINGTON -- A woman who attacked a painting at Washington's National Gallery of Art earlier this year has struck again, police say, this time lashin...

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We Bet You Don't Know These 10 Odd Facts About Famous Artists

Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Vegetarian, Salvador Dali, Auguste Rodin, Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance, Paul Gauguin, UK Arts, Henri Matisse, Monet, Video, Art, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Slideshow, Peter Paul Rubens, Damien Hirst, Slidepollajax, Arts News

You might think that since the artists included in the slideshow below are famous, you know everything about them (and perhaps some of you do). But we...

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A Day Trip to the Rockefeller Preserve, Just North of NYC

Lea Lane | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Marc Chagall, Manhattan, Woody Allen, Metro-North, Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Hudson River, Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Westchester County, Pocantico Hills, Henri Matisse, David Rockefeller, New York News

Vaux and Olmsted created Central Park out of fantasy. This preserve is natural fantasy. There's even a tinge of danger. Unknown paths beckon into witchy woods. But mostly the flora and fauna offer calm.

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Happy Birthday Paul Gauguin!

Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Mette Sophia Gad, Art, Birthdays, Modern Art, France, Tahiti, Impressionism, Noa Noa, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Van Gogh, Painting, Slidepollajax, Denmark, Henri Matisse, Arts News

On June 7, 1848 Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris France. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement and his bold experiments with...

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The Cone Sisters of Baltimore

Howard Kissel | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Henri Matisse, Arts News

In the case of the paintings in the exhibit at the Jewish Museum, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters," most of what hangs on the wall was acquired when its painters were unknown or even reviled.

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Stop, Thieves!

Christian Josi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Gallery, Post-Impressionism, Renoir, Pennsylvania, Chaim Soutine, Pablo Picasso, Philadelphia, Paul Cezanne, Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Arts News

The greatest art theft in history is happening right now in the suburbs of Philadelphia -- and the odds are that you've never heard of it.

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Letter From Paris: Learning to See Like Matisse

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matisse, Henri Matisse, Arts News

In this complex world in which we live, learning to see is a lifelong proposition. Not to blindly walk through life, but to consider what is before us. Oh, but to see the way Matisse did!

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John Seed's HuffPost Highlights 2010 (VIDEO)

John Seed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Huffpost Arts, John Seed, Jon Swihart, Pablo Picasso, Leonard Koscianski, Nathan Oliveira, Sarah McKenzie, Julie Heffernan, Henri Matisse, Deconstruction, F. Scott Hess, Arts News

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Sir Peter Blake Speaks About His Collection of Curiosities

Spread ArtCulture | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kisa Lala, Taxidermy, Sir Peter Blake, Walter Potter, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Dion, Joseph Cornell, Jack Pierson, Damien Hirst, Art, Kurt Schwitters, Collage, Henri Matisse, Arts News

The vintage worlds of fairgrounds, Victorian curios, cultural detritus and memorabilia have been Sir Peter Blake's passion for most of his life.

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ART ECONOMY: $68.9 Mil Painting Of Nude Woman Sign of Recovery? Modigliani, Matisse And Monet Auctioned At Sotheby's

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Art Economy, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Fashion, Christie's, Joan Miro, Carnival Cruise Lines, Modern Art, Claude Monet, Sotheby's, Art Auctions, Impressionist Art, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Arts News

The auction season is off to a solid start at Sotheby's where works by Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso were up for au...

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MUSEUM EXHIBIT: Diaghilev And The Ballet Russes On Display In London

artdaily.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sergei Diaghilev, Museums, Ballet Russes, Art Exhibits, Victoria and Albert Museum, Picasso, Chanel, London, Igor Stravinsky, Henri Matisse, Arts News

LONDON.- The V&A's major autumn exhibition, "Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909--1929", will explore the world of the influential...

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WATCH: DANCE IN THE MUSEUM: Diaghilev And The Golden Age of Ballets Russes

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Diaghilev, Serge, CoCo Chanel, Victoria and Albert Museum, Pablo Picasso, Geoffrey Marsh, Ballet, Leonard Blavatnik, Picasso, Chanel, Igor Stravinsky, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Crane.tv's video leads us through the impressive journey that is Serge Diaghilev's creative career as the mastermind behind Les Ballets Russes, his cr...

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PAINTING: Courbet the Trout, Matisse the Goldfish

John Seed | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Moma, Modern Art, Gustave Courbet, Henri Matisse, Painters, Ernest Hemingway, Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Kyle Staver, Art Exhibitions, Arts News

Gustave Courbet, The Trout, 1872 Oil on canvas, 21 5/8 x 35 in (55 x 89 cm), Kunsthaus, Zurich "Fish, I love you and respect you very much. But ...

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PHOTOS: EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: 'Matisse: Radical Invention' On View At MoMA NYC

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Painters, NY Culture, Museums, Impressionism, Sculpture, Slideshows, New York Museum of Modern Art, Art Museums, Moma, Museum of Modern Art, Matisse, Prints on Paper, Slidefullscreen, Henri Matisse, Arts News

WHO: Henri Matisse WHAT: Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 WHEN: July 18, 2010 - October 11, 2010 WHERE: The Museum of Modern Art 11 We...

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