Matisse had nearly a decade of radical painting under his belt in 1906, while Picasso was just emerging from his blue and rose reveries, and about to explode into Cubism. Matisse was the leader of ...

But soon he reversed course completely, to brown tones in still lifes that are full of asides to Matisse, Cubism and the old masters — and deserve their own exhibition.

The thorn in Matisse’s side for most of the years encompassed by this show was Picasso’s ferocious “Demoiselles d’Avignon” of 1907 and Cubism, its more refined aftermath.

Inspired by the colors and textiles around him, the artist’s two trips to Tangier became an impetus for growth and ...

Compelling works from 1913-1917 show how the artist grappled with Cubism — and rose to the challenge. Skip to main content. Sections. Search. ePaper. Podcasts. Created with Sketch.

Cubism and Futurism: Matisse's fusion of forms. Of Matisse it may be said at once that he is mad, as William Blake was mad. But Blake in his "madness" was isolated from his fellows, ...

An exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris examines Marguerite's indelible influence on her father's evolving painting styles ...

Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954). Horse, Rider, and Clown (Le cheval, l’écuyère et le clown) from Jazz, 1947, pochoir printed in color ink on wove paper.

Matisse, whose own still life of lemons had recently been criticized, saw how Picasso was pushing the genre towards cubism, a term he’s alleged to have coined by describing a work of Braque as ...

Part 1 of Janet Flanner’s 1951 Profile of Matisse discusses the the painter’s leadership of the Fauvism movement and his relationship to Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein.

Cubism 101. Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain in 1881. By age 23 he moved to Paris, then the art capital of Europe, where he found success fairly quickly.

Matisse wintered in Tangier, Morocco, in 1912 and 1913 as a means of escape from the cubism that dominated Paris. Matisse found new artistic inspiration in Morocco through the country's sublime ...