A view of Matisse's "The Swimming Pool" (1952), as installed in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition, "Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs." "Henry Matisse: The Cut-Outs" Museum of Modern Art The exhibition catalogue, "Henry Matisse: The Cut-Outs,"edited by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, J...
One of modern art’s towering figures,Henri Matisse(1869–1954) was a painter, draftsman, sculptor and printmaker before turning to paper cut-outs in the 1940s. From the clashing hues of his Fauvist works made in the South of France in 1904–05, to the harmonies of his Nice interiors f...
Innovative Technique: Matisse’s cut-out technique was highly innovative and unique. During the latter part of his career, due to health issues that limited his mobility, he started creating art by cutting shapes out of painted paper and then arranging and gluing them onto larger surfaces. This...
Time Out says In later life Henri Matisse became a warrior in a wheelchair. Armed with long-bladed scissors and sheets of paper painted in dazzling hues by a team of doting assistants, in the late 1930s he waged war on old age and illness the only way he knew how – with art. The...
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sensation - that I kept working, in the hope of finding an ultimate method'. The ultimate method was that of the cut-outs - but only because it was the last. It was the kind of journey that could have gone on forever. (J.Elderfield,The Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse, New York 1978, ...
Learn about Henri Matisse, a French artist famous for Fauvism and his bold use of color and form. Discover facts about his life and explore his...
Gift of Mme Jean Matisse and Gérard Matisse, 1982. © Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris and Szépmüvészeti Múzeum. Photograph by Shira Wolfe. Designs for Verve, 1937-1949 In his cut-out work, Matisse first painted sheets of paper with gouache, and then cut out ...
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