Henri Matisse

Color, line, balance—how did the fate of an artist who overturned ideas about painting unfold? From the search of the Impressionists—to a recognizable language where each tone sounds like a separate melody.

This book invites you into the mysterious and bold world of Henri Matisse—one of the key masters of European modernism. It explores in detail the artist’s biography, his creative principles, and the method through which a distinctive sense of space and color was born. The development of Matisse’s style is traced: from early works marked by the influence of Impressionism to mature masterpieces shining with a saturated palette and decorative expressiveness. His sense of harmony between form and color noticeably influenced the further development of world art. The edition is generously enhanced with illustrations of works from different years and will become a source of ideas and inspiration for art historians and all lovers of painting.