ABOUT THE ARTIST

Matisse pioneered a revolutionary use of color and form, refusing to accept that color must reflect the real world. Matisse moved around the wheel, using jarring colors to quickly become a ‘bad boy’ of French art.

Works by Henri Matisse and numerous other artists entered the public domain this year as a major trove of copyrights expired in the US on January 1, 2019.

In addition to masterful landscapes and still lifes, Matisse loved to paint erotic subjects, particularly the female nude. Rejecting strict realism, he distilled the form into its essential parts and then translated these into voluptuous, rounded contours. In pictures like the lithograph Nu Bleu, he explored the expressive power of a body in motion by placing his figures in twisted or contorted poses, transforming their limbs into tangles of color and shape that push figure painting toward abstraction.

When ordering Matisse's prints The Picturalist offers the choice to print on an Off-White archival paper for that vintage feel or Pure White for a crisp look.

ABOUT THE PICTURALIST

The Picturalist offers a curated wall art collection featuring International emerging artists from a wide range of artistic backgrounds.

Interior designers work is very much intertwined with that of fine artists. Complete your design projects with the perfect artwork, requesting custom sizes, customized colors and your own choice of frames. Send us an email at [email protected]