Claim: Pablo Picasso was a painter.

Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse -LRB- -LSB- ɑ̃ʁi emil bənwɑ matis -RSB- ; 31 December 1869 -- 3 November 1954 -RRB- was a French artist , known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship . He was a draughtsman , printmaker , and sculptor , but is known primarily as a painter .   Matisse is commonly regarded , along with Pablo Picasso , as one of the artists who best helped to define the revolutionary developments in the visual arts throughout the opening decades of the twentieth century , responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture . Although he was initially labelled a Fauve -LRB- wild beast -RRB- , by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting .  His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing , displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century , won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art .