Henri Matisse's Great Leap Forward

Henri Matisse's Great Leap Forward From 1913 to 1917, Matisse reinvented painting. A new show at the Art Institute of Chicago traces his path
Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society, New York

The Italian Woman, 1916
Even in his portraits, like The Italian Woman, Matisse could almost entirely transform the sitter, because he was confident that feeling in a painting was conveyed not by physical appearance or facial expression but by the sum of the impressions created by line and color.

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