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Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) is one of the leading figures of modern
art. His unparalleled cut-outs are among the most significant of
any artist's late works. When ill health first prevented Matisse
from painting, he began to cut into painted paper with scissors as
his primary technique to make maquettes for a number of
commissions, from books and stained glass window designs to
tapestries and ceramics. Taking the form of a 'studio diary', the
catalogue re-examines the cut-outs in terms of the methods and
materials that Matisse used, and looks at the tensions in the works
between finish and process; fine art and decoration; contemplation
and utility; and drawing and colour.
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Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (Hardcover)
Henri Matisse; Edited by Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan, Jodi Hauptman; Text written by Samantha Friedman
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Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition
ever devoted to Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs, made from the early
1940s until the artist's death in 1954, this publication presents
approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of
Matisse's colorful and innovative final chapter. The result of
research conducted on two fronts--conservation and curatorial--the
catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut-outs by exploring a
host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and
materials and the role and function of the works in his practice;
their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies;
their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as
contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent,
a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing. Richly
illustrated to present the cut-outs in all of their vibrancy and
luminosity, the book includes an introduction and a conservation
essay that consider the cut-outs from new theoretical and technical
perspectives, and five thematic essays, each focusing on a
different moment in the development of the cut-out practice, that
provide a chronicle of this radical medium's unfolding, and period
photographs that show the works in process in Matisse's
studio.
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 from the 1920s, to this brilliant final chapter,
Matisse followed a career-long path that he described as
"construction by means of color."
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