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Henri Matisse — Profile of a Woman | Classic Fauvist Line DrawingHenri Matisse (18691954) was the defining figure of Fauvism a movement that replaced tonal modelling with pure, expressive colour. Trained under Gustave Moreau in Paris, he spent decades transforming Western painting through portraiture, landscape, still life, and large scale mural commissions. His final decade, spent largely bedridden, produced his celebrated papiers dcoups: compositions cut entirely from painted paper, which he described as "drawing

As the third abbot of Manpuku-ji temple in Uji — the headquarters of the Ōbaku sect of Zen Buddhism — he brought with him the Chinese calligraphic tradition of the late Ming dynasty

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known for her botanical close-ups and portraits — and Richard Hunt (born 1935) — a Chicago sculptor whose welded metal abstractions brought modernist form to public sculpture — represent this tradition at its most graphically refined

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese woodblock print — an artist whose landscape series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo transformed Western art's understanding of what a landscape image could do

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and timeless in its celebration of horse and rider

could carry the full weight of a painting's meaning

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and calligrapher — the most irreverent

His late works — Broadway Boogie Woogie

Neoplatonism

Mucha devoted his deepest energies to the Slav Epic

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