From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and ...

Among the more than 300 Matisse works, on display in Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, is a simple charcoal drawing. No more - or less - remarkable than any other. What sets it apart, in a room of ...