Matisse: gouaches decoupées

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DRAWING WITH SCISSORS

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. So at almost 80 years of age, he developed a new technique: he drew shapes on colored paper, cut them out and pasted the  together. These gouaches decoupées (gouache cut-outs) represented a revolution in modern art, Matisse had found a solution to the age-old conflict between line and color.

 

Henri Matisse (1.869-1.954)