Matisse: L'art plus grand. Egypte the Petit Palais in Paris

the Petit Palais in Paris

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

A confrontation of the structures of societies and power

and the BNF

tricked by other animals and constantly pursued by hunters and peasants

Matisse: L'art plus grand. Egypte the Petit Palais in Paris"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