Henri Matisse ranks among the most acclaimed and imitated of modern artists, but his innovations shocked many of his contemporaries and only gained widespread acceptance after generating substantial controversy. By the late twentieth century, however,...

The French painter and sculptor Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the great initiators of the modern art movement and the most outstanding personality of the first revolution in 20th-century art--Fauvism. About the turn of the 20th century there...

Are you planning for a Monday morning art class, yearning for that special learning experience for your students? Would you like a standards-based lesson plan that includes artistic elements and principles, infuses art history and, oh yes, inspires your budding artists? Well, might...

Next in our "eARTh ... it's got ART" yearlong curriculum series is the continent of Europe. This unit could be a full-year curriculum due to the many countries and artists found here, so writing a single unit is a challenge! Here, I...

Amadeo Modigliani's life as an artist was marred by poverty, stormy relationships and drug use, and cut short by an early death.Now Spain's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has put together an exhibition that allows a profound re-evaluation of this Italian's meteoric career by placing his work in...