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Henri Matisse   /hˈɛnri mˈætis/   Listen
Henri Matisse

noun
1.
French painter and sculptor; leading figure of fauvism (1869-1954).  Synonyms: Henri Emile Benoit Matisse, Matisse.






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"Henri Matisse" Quotes from Famous Books



... Western and Eastern at the same time. It was no longer the Greek conception of form that prevailed on the banks of the Seine, or wherever art was produced. Art was become again, what the Orientals had always known it to be, significant form. It was as though Persia had been born again in Henri Matisse, for instance. A sense of design and color the like of which had hitherto been manifest only in the vases and bloomy carpets of Teheran dictated his exquisite patterns. Hokusai and Outamaro got in Vincent Van Gogh a brother. The sultry atmosphere and animal richness of Hindoo art reappeared ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld



Words linked to "Henri Matisse" :   Matisse, painter, Henri Emile Benoit Matisse



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