Painting outdoors was simply his preference, doing so even when painting portraits and interior scenes. A draft for “The Human Mountain” in Ekely (1927). Image Courtesy of Munch Museet.

The company also grew; today East Fork has more than 100 employees in its Asheville, North Carolina headquarters. Finally, Matisse was ready to re-embrace his famous forebear. Today, East Fork has ...

Alex Matisse grew up in a family of acclaimed artists, but not until he took an after-school pottery class did he discover his own life’s path. Now his East Fork Pottery makes bowls, plates and ...

Henri Matisse painted "Woman in White" in 1946. For now, the vibrant painting is one road, stopping stateside and then overseas.

Henri Matisse, the French artist known for his use of vibrant colors, painted “Dame à la robe blanche (Woman in White)” in 1946, depicting Matisse’s neighbor, the journalist Elvire Van ...

Gustav Klimt, an Austrian painter, was one of the most famous and respected members of the Vienna Secession movement. He had mastery in symbolism and art, and a majority of his paintings feature a ...

Throughout the history of art, artists and paintings, the chiaroscuro technique has been used, made famous and put the audience in awe and surprise. Chiaroscuro has been used by numerous artists ...

Climate activists took hammers to a famous painting in London on Monday while calling for the U.K. to stop new oil and gas projects in the country. Just Stop Oil attacked Diego Velázquez's 17th ...

French artist Henri Matisse’s famous goldfish paintings were thought to have been inspired by his time in Morocco, but could Chinese art or pottery have been the real inspiration?

One of Picasso's more famous surrealist paintings includes his "The Weeping Woman" series, which uses his infamous angular style to combine different colors to form the face of a crying woman.