Matisse: L'art plus grand. Egypte and the BNF

and the BNF

the Petit Palais in Paris

which nevertheless remained largely unknown

Ancient black bronzes – new observations and creation mechanisms

Matisse: L'art plus grand. Egypte and the BNF"The artist must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did as a child." Throughout his career as a painter, which lasted nearly sixty years, Henri Matisse (1869 1954) remained faithful to this principle: to maintain a fresh perspective, to observe each thing as a discovery, thus leaving plenty of room for emotion. However, the artist added, "looking at something as if we had never seen it before