matisse, henri

"The story of a snail's search for the right color for its shell helps us understand how Matisse refined his technique and how the selection of particular colors and shapes was the key to his art"--Amazon.com.

Showcases masterworks by three painters of line and color, including Dufy, Gauguin, and Matisse, providing details about their individual styles, techniques, and subjects, and challenging viewers to identify the artist of featured paintings.

Presents the life and work of Henri Matisse in the form of a child's school report.

Surveys the life and work of twentieth-century artist Henri Matisse, and includes over eighty color and black-and-white illustrations.

Illustrated biography of French painter Henri Matisse, who was hospitalized and bedridden with abdominal cancer for months, during which time he turned to paper-cutting and collage as a way to deal with his sickness.

"If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary French town where there were gray skies and you wanted color and light and sun, what might you become?"--Dust jacket flap.

"When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a picture book featuring the later years of artist Henri Matisse, when he turned to creating collages out of cut paper, from the first small bird he cut out of white paper up to his full collages that covered whole walls in cut paper.