It has that kind of naturalness. But then you look more closely at how it was made — what precise shapes Matisse cut the colored paper into and exactly how they have been arranged to suggest ...

“Cut-and-pasted paper was a way for a painter to conceptualize his work. Picasso and then Matisse took this from a low level, a hidden technique, and put it out front, on the surface, in the art ...

Over the next eight years Matisse gradually abandoned easel painting, experimenting with prints, inventing cut-paper techniques and working on large-scale decorative murals, until the advent of a ...

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on at the Tate Modern from Thursday 17 April until Sunday 7 September 2014 ...

“I love how bold Matisse’s prints are, from the Blue Nudes to his cut-out style,” says Lily Barton, a 20-something nurse from Bristol. “However, when I saw the line drawings I loved how ...