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Henri Matisse : cut-outs : drawing with scissors / edited by Gilles and Xavier-Gilles Néret ; texts by Xavier-Gilles Néret ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen.

by Néret, Xavier-Gilles, author, editor.

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Köln : Taschen, [2018]

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954 -- Criticism and interpretation.

9783836567190 (hardcover) :

3836567199 (hardcover)

412 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

The reputation of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) as the most important artist of the modern era is rivaled only by Picasso -- who himself said, "All things considered, there is only Matisse." Towards 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 a longer period of time. In this late phase of his life -- he was almost 80 years of age -- he developed the technique of creating brightly colored paper cut-outs. These gouaches decoupees (gouache cut-outs) represented a revolution in modern art, yet their simplicity was dismissed by many critics as the folly of a senile old man. Later critics realized that Matisse had found a brilliant solution to the age-old conflict between line and color -- one that would profoundly influence generations of artists to come.

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