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Article: Henry Matisse: paper cut-outs.
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- October 1, 2003
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During the final decade of his long career, Matisse set the seal on his life's work through a radically new art form: the paper cut-outs. In response to a suggestion made by the publisher Teriade in 1942 that he should do an illustrated album in colour, Matisse decided--following on from his cover design for Cahiers d'Art of 1936--to elevate the paper cut-out from serving just as an aid in the gestation of the work to acting as the actual medium out of which the designs for the stencil prints of the album, finally called Jazz, were created. The perennial conflict in his work between line and colour was now resolved in the process of cutting into sheets of paper painted in ...
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