This week in Exploring the Great Artists

Henri Matisse

                                                                                         Matisse Cut-outs

 

A French artist who was a draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor but mainly a painter. In his old age when painting and sculpting became a challenge he turned to a new type of medium. With the help of his assistants, he began creating cut paper collages, or decoupage. In the beginning they were small in size but over time they turned into murals or wall-sized 

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