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Against the tumultuous backdrop of World War II and the German occupation, Henri
Matisse resided in Nice at his apartment in the Hotel Regina. Although he continued to endure health complications, Matisse was able to enjoy a period of relative calmness in Nice. His artistic practice continued to show
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1941 is an oil painting by the French master Henri
Matisse. It depicts an unassuming still-life of an ivy plant, placed on top of a table located in the interior of a presumably domestic space. The painting is characteristic of Matisse's triumph of the abstraction of lines and subdued colour values
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demonstrates a concern for decorative and subdued colour values without implicating non-aesthetic considerations in the same manner that his still-life and figure compositions remained unaffected by the war years. Created with a tendency towards the abstract configurations of line and colour, a
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Matisse initiated in the 1930s, this flower still-life is unpretentious yet conceived in an appealing manner (15).
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A Tribute to Samuel J Zacks from the Sam and Ayala Zacks
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