The Smart About Art series continues with Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor, illus. by Jessie Hartland. Presented and organized in the style of a grade-school report (and written ...
After Henri Matisse’s body was weakened by a cancer operation in 1941, the French artist began “painting with scissors,” creating collages with paper shapes. The works, many of which he made in the ...
The hottest ticket in New York right now is not The Book of Mormon or Kinky Boots, nor Weezer or The Brain Cloud. It is entry to MOMA's exhibit of nearly 100 colorful scissor-and-paper cutouts by ...
LITTLE ROCK — Like the monochromatic sculptures we featured during the summer, a 20th-century modern artist also inspires this week's project. Henri Matisse was a sculptor and printmaker, but is best ...
The Stations of the Cross” drawings are a stark black and white. Nonetheless, it’s clear that Matisse threw himself into the ...
Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...
Reporting from NEW YORK — When Henri Matisse (1869-1954) finished his breakthrough painting “The Joy of Life,” he was 36. A new century was just getting underway, and he flung open a door to an ...
"I’m sorry. The lecture is completely sold out," a museum representative said. "Sold out! I thought the event was free!" a disappointed prospective attendee responded. Last Thursday, at the Harvard ...
Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity. Matisse ...