“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 ...

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 ...

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 Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Jean-Claude Planchet, Artwork:© Succession Henri Matisse/DACS 2014 ...

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