Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long.
Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale, these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse\'s lifetime..
In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist abstraction, which would profoundly influence generations of artists to come.
Tériade, the poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, and Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse\'s son-in-law Georges Duthuit.
Murnau, with texts by Matisse, publisher E.
W.
It includes many photos of Matisse, as well as some rare images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F.
This edition of the first volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough historical context to Matisse\'s cut-outs, tracing their roots to his 1930 trip to Tahiti and continuing through to his final years in Nice.
Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these gouaches decoupées (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the age-old conflict between color and line.
In this late phase of his life--he was almost 80 years of age--he developed the technique of carving into color, creating bright, bold paper cut-outs.
Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long
