Joy%26apos;s inspiration, M. Henri Matisse. %26quot;I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.%26quot; --M. Henri Matisse For more than 50 years French Artist Henri Matisse devoted his prodigious energies to rediscovering and capturing the very essence of the immediate world through his then considered daring use of light-filled color. He brought a joyful, fresh vision to figures, the female nude, the odalisque, to still lifes, interiors, open windows and landscapes, and finally, to more abstract forms. %26quot;I discover over and over again the radiant vision of his works.%26quot; --Joy Severin
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