Seventy-five years ago today, on June 11, 1950 (April 26, 1950), the Brutalist painter Matisse was awarded the Venice Prize. On June 11, 1950, Henri Matisse, a renowned French contemporary artist, was honored at the Venice Festival. Matisse, a brilliant oil painter and sculptor, asked to share the honor with his colleague and friend Henri Lawrence, whose work is rarely accepted by the public. In Venice, the 81-year-old Matisse won praise for his award, although several artists and critics felt that the competition's judges had ignored Marc Chagall. Matisse has influenced dozens of French families over the past 50 years. He is considered to be the main representative of Fauvism, but it is also acknowledged that he cut ties with all formal schools and styles early in his artistic career. Matisse studied painting at the Paris School of Fine Arts under the reclusive Gustave Moreau, and held his first exhibition in 1896. In the early 2000s, Matisse drifted away, experimenting with his own style and plunging into a new world of bright colors. His paintings were clean and crisp. Traveling in Morocco moved him so much that the Arab influence could be seen in the decoration of his paintings, in the rough lines and shades of color he used. He liked to use slaves and concubines as subjects. In pen and ink sketches and lithographs, he liked to use simple geometric lines. When Matisse was honored in Venice, he was working on a new design project to decorate the "Dominican Church in the Rose Garden" in Vince, France. Under his direction, the walls of this church were painted black and white, but the gloomy atmosphere stood out against the beautiful and conspicuous stained glass. Vince is a hillside town, near Grasse, overlooking the middle of the land. After the war, Matisse lived here. The artist's work is widely known in the United States. In 1913, Matisse held his first large-scale exhibition of fine art paintings at the famous New York Armory Show. Later, his work was also included in the memorable exhibition of the artist's past works in Philadelphia in 1948. The Venice Festival is held every two years, and it gives artists from all over the world the opportunity to meet each other. In the past few years, the French have monopolized the award ceremony. At the last festival, George Braque won the grand prize. This year, the United States was widely reviewed at the Venice exhibition. The work of landscape painter John Marin is representative of the retrospective paintings of the first-class. Oil paintings by new-generation artists are also striking, among them Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. On June 11, 1950 (the 26th month of the lunar calendar), the work of the Fauvist painter Matisse. Oil painting "Maiden" (1922) Fauvism painting Matisse oil painting "Dance" (1909) oil painting "Inside the Red Fish Tank" oil painting "Algerian" (1908) oil painting "Romanian coat" (1940)