Composition Green Background 1947 (Composition Fond Vert) – Henri Matisse - Cutouts Lithograph Art Print - Art Prints Cubist Paintings Collection The illustration is from a

The illustration is from a Nayika series where the hero and heroine are cast in the roles of the eternal lovers Radha and Krishna

it figured prominently in many of his paintings

Many different legends tell of her various exploits and marriages

The painting depicts a young woman and her younger sister seated outdoors with a small basket containing balls of wool

Redon is one of the most important and original of all the Symbolist artists

Composition Green Background 1947 (Composition Fond Vert) – Henri Matisse - Cutouts Lithograph Art Print - Art Prints Cubist Paintings Collection The illustration is from aIn the late 1940s, Henri Matisse turned almost exclusively to cut paper as his primary medium, and scissors as his chief implement, introducing a radically new operation that came to be called a cut out. Matisse would cut painted sheets into forms of varying shapes and sizesfrom the vegetal to the abstractwhich he then arranged into lively compositions, striking for their play with color and contrast, their exploitation of decorative strategies, and