Tate Introductions: Matisse

Tate Introductions: Matisse
Author: Juliette Rizzi
Publisher: Tate Enterprises Ltd
Total Pages: 55
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1849762864

Henri Matisse is a leading figure of modern art and one of the most significant colourists of all time. In a career spanning over half a century, Matisse made a large body of work encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture and ceramics. After 1948 he was prevented from painting by ill health but, although confined to bed, he produced a number of works known as the 'cut-outs'. These were made by cutting or tearing shapes from painted paper. This concise book, written by Juliette Rizzi, Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, is the perfect introduction to the life and work of this artist and modern master.

Tate Introductions: Warhol

Tate Introductions: Warhol
Author: Stephanie Straine
Publisher: Tate Enterprises Ltd
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1849763291

A central figure in pop art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the most significant and influential artists of the later twentieth century. In the 1960s he began to explore the growing interplay between mass culture and the visual arts, and his constant experimentation with new processes for the dissemination of art played a pivotal role in redefining access to culture and art as we know it today. • At the height of his fame, Warhol claimed he was "abandoning" painting, shifting his practice towards a commitment to the theoretically limitless channels ofpublishing, film, fashion, music, and broadcasting. It was this "transmission" of art and radical ideas that embodied his ethical conviction that "art should be for everyone". • Stephanie Straine is Assistant Curator at Tate Liverpool, and specialises in American art of the 1960s. Her lively yet authoritative text provides the perfect introduction to the life and work of a pioneering artist whose legacy extends into the digital age.

Tate Introductions: Matisse

Tate Introductions: Matisse
Author: Juliette Rizzi
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781849762984

French artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary artistic developments of the opening decades of the 20th century. His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, has won him recognition as a leading figure in the development of modern art.

Tate Introductions: Miró

Tate Introductions: Miró
Author: Iria Candela
Publisher: Tate Enterprises Ltd
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2014-03-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1849762899

The bright colours and graphic strength of paintings by Joan Miro have made him an immensely popular modern painter, but the artist would have been extremely disappointed to see his work treated as little more than interior décor. In this accessible survey of the artist's life and career, Iria Candela explains the complex roots and darker shades that lie behind the evolution of Miró's work, from the culture of his Catalan homeland to his exposure as a young man to the latest experiments of the avant-garde in Paris and the rise of Fascism in Spain. She examines not only Miró's paintings but also his sculpture, prints and murals, quoting from many of the artist's own revealing statements. For anyone wanting to explore the legacy left by the artist who declared that he wanted to 'assassinate painting', this concise introduction is the perfect guide.

Tate Introductions: David Hockney

Tate Introductions: David Hockney
Author: Helen Little
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A lively and accessible introduction to the life and work of David Hockney, one of the most popular and influential British artists of the 20th century. As he approaches his 80th birthday, Hockney continues to change his style and ways of working, embracing new technologies as he goes. From his portraits and images of Los Angeles swimming pools, through to his drawings and photography, Yorkshire landscapes and most recent paintings, his art has examined, probed and questioned how the perceived world of movement, space and time can be captured in two dimensions. Part of the Tate Introduction series, this book offers a concise and engaging account of Hockney's life, his art, and the ongoing debates concerning his significance.

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse
Author: Henri Matisse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1994
Genre: Painters
ISBN: 9781858410517

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse
Author: Karl D. Buchberg
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art and design
ISBN: 9781849761291

Henri Matisse is one of the leading figures of modern art. His unparalleled cut-outs are among the most significant of any artist's late works. When ill health first prevented Matisse from painting, he began to cut into painted paper with scissors as his primary technique to make maquettes for a number of commissions, from books and stained glass window designs to tapestries and ceramics. Taking the form of a 'studio diary', the catalogue re-examines the cut-outs in terms of the methods and materials that Matisse used, and looks at the tensions in the works between finish and process; and drawings and colour.

Henri's Scissors

Henri's Scissors
Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1442464852

Step into the colorful world of Henri Matisse and his magnificent paper cutouts in this biography by acclaimed picture book creator Jeanette Winter. In a small weaving town in France, a young boy named Henri-Emile Matisse drew pictures everywhere, and when he grew up, he moved to Paris and became a famous artist who created paintings that were adored around the world. But late in life a serious illness confined him to a wheelchair, and amazingly, it was from there that he created among his most beloved works—enormous and breathtaking paper cutouts. Based on the life of Henri Matisse, this moving and inspirational picture book biography includes a note from the author, dynamic quotes from Matisse himself, and an illuminating look at a little-known part of a great artist’s creative process.

Matisse Picasso

Matisse Picasso
Author: Elizabeth Cowling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This work accompanies an exhibition organised, in partnership, by Tate Modern, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and the Museum of Modern Art. It examines the crucial relationship between Matisse and Picasso.

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse
Author: Catherine C. Bock Weiss
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 793
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1317947762

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.