Paper Cutting Matisse

Henri matisse s cut out technique.

Paper cutting matisse. Studio assistants painted sheets of paper with gouache. The raw materials paper and gouache were purchased and the two materials combined. He would then carefully cut out shapes using a standard pair of scissors and it was at this point that his imagination took over. Blue nudes red hearts and multicolored flowers fill henri matisse s paper cut outs the technique that fascinated the artist for the final decade of his career.

Matisse also employed cut outs that he designed for the stained glass windows for the chapelle du rosaire a project he took on as a gesture to a. The artist was still well enough to paint paper with single blocks of colour normally using gouache. Matisse died in 1954 at the age. The cut outs were created in distinct phases.

For smaller compositions the artist worked directly on a board using. Some of matisse s last works were large collages of cut and pasted paper as abstract and bold as anything being made by much younger artists in the early 1950s.