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Towards the end of his career, the elderly and ailing Matisse, unable to stand and use a paintbrush, developed the revolutionary technique of 'carving into color,' creating vibrant paper cut-outs. At nearly 80 years old, he faced dismissal from some critics who viewed his work as the folly of a senile artist. However, these gouaches decoupees represented a significant breakthrough in modern art, re-imagining the longstanding conflict between color and line. This fresh TASCHEN edition provides a comprehensive historical context for Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their origins from his 1930 trip to Tahiti to his final years in Nice. It features numerous photographs of Matisse, including rare color images by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, and filmmaker Murnau, alongside texts from Matisse, Picasso, publisher E. Teriade, and poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law, Georges Duthuit. The cut-outs, with their deceptive simplicity, achieved a sculptural quality and early minimalist abstraction that would influence generations of artists. Exuberant and grand in scale, these works stand as true pillars of 20th-century art, bold and innovative, just as they were during Matisse's lifetime.
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Cut-Outs, Xavier-Gilles Néret
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- Released
- 2014
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- Title
- Cut-Outs
- Subtitle
- Drawing With Scissors
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Xavier-Gilles Néret
- Publisher
- Taschen
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 334
- ISBN10
- 3836536293
- ISBN13
- 9783836536295
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Children's Books, Art, France, 20th century, 19th century, History of Art, Picture Books, Photos, Paris, Modernism, Modern Art, Surrealism
- Rating
- 4.65 out of 5
- Description
- Towards the end of his career, the elderly and ailing Matisse, unable to stand and use a paintbrush, developed the revolutionary technique of 'carving into color,' creating vibrant paper cut-outs. At nearly 80 years old, he faced dismissal from some critics who viewed his work as the folly of a senile artist. However, these gouaches decoupees represented a significant breakthrough in modern art, re-imagining the longstanding conflict between color and line. This fresh TASCHEN edition provides a comprehensive historical context for Matisse's cut-outs, tracing their origins from his 1930 trip to Tahiti to his final years in Nice. It features numerous photographs of Matisse, including rare color images by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, and filmmaker Murnau, alongside texts from Matisse, Picasso, publisher E. Teriade, and poets Louis Aragon, Henri Michaux, Pierre Reverdy, and Matisse's son-in-law, Georges Duthuit. The cut-outs, with their deceptive simplicity, achieved a sculptural quality and early minimalist abstraction that would influence generations of artists. Exuberant and grand in scale, these works stand as true pillars of 20th-century art, bold and innovative, just as they were during Matisse's lifetime.