It’s why Matisse and Picasso chose to draw crudely when each could draw like Ingres, why Matisse liked his paintings to look unfinished and Picasso was bent on tearing everything apart.

Arnoud wore the new hat with a panache that made her simple white housecoat seem like a ball gown. Daily painting sessions alternated with hours on end devoted to drawing. Matisse set himself the ...

The bedroom looked exactly like mine. After that, I started noticing Matisse prints everywhere ... It’s clever – they’re drawing on art history, as all artists do, but giving it a ...

Most of the pictures were recent, all were typical. Like Matisse, Dufy uses startling paint, but his staccato drawing and deliberately off-register coloring are individual. His favorite scenes are ...