Matisse: L'art plus grand. Egypte between the "necessarily sumptuous empires

between the "necessarily sumptuous empires

J'en ai tellement assez de peindre sans plan précis

the Petit Palais in Paris

But how to go about it

The choice of works presented here underlines an interaction of different artistic expressions that prohibits any precise limit between the painter and the decorator

Matisse: L'art plus grand. Egypte between the "necessarily sumptuous empires"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