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Verve Noir by Henri MatisseVerve was the Parisian art magazine that commissioned Matisse to design its covers from the early 1940s onward a collaboration that gave him the freedom to experiment with pure colour and flat form at a time when painting had become physically difficult. Verve Noir is one of the most striking of these covers: a near black field that makes the organic Matisse shapes seem to float. Bold enough to anchor a wall, refined enough to reward close attention.

He instructed galleries to hang his paintings low and large so that viewers would be enveloped rather than observe from a distance

flat colour

and a venue that launched the careers of Truffaut

Vogue Magazine Umbrella 1919 is a masterwork of mid-century graphic design — bold

and meaning

The kind of work that makes you understand why drawing was Matisse's first love

asked one of the most productive questions in art history: what happens when you look at a commercial object with the attention usually reserved for a Rembrandt

The result was something that hit a nerve: people who didn't think of themselves as art buyers found themselves wanting these on their walls

His 1962 series of 32 canvases

with the colour of flowers without being floral

warm palette

the kind of image that makes you want to be wherever those people are

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