Matisse, leader of the fauvism movement

Follow our specialist in Art History in the discovery of one of the major 2012 exhibitions, the "Matisse. Paires et séries" exhibition, at the Pompidou museum. Leader of the fauvim movement, he was a rival, but neverthelesse a great friend, of Pablo Picasso. Henri Matisse will dazzle you with his paintings full of colours and with the stylization of the shapes. Our expert will guide you in a small group through this display of about sixty paintings. She will be happy to enlighten you about the major periods of the painter and about the remarkable artistic procedure peculiar to Matisse. Discover what makes Matisse different and innovative and how he largely contributed to the developing of modern painting.

Thanks to this intimist and friendly tour you will be able to grasp, in a simple and fun way, Matisse's work and understand better the influence the artist had on the art at the 20th century.

Duration : 1h30
Group : max. 10 people
Spoken languages : French, English