A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via works from ...

Draw shapes on the back of the paper if you’re concerned you may not cut exactly on drawn outline. Following drawn outline, use scissors to cut out paper shapes. Angling the blade slightly away from ...

New exhibit of Matisse’s cut-outs shows how artist began ‘painting with scissors’ 120 of Matisse's paper cut-outs -- created between 1936 and 1954 -- have been collected and will be on ...

In the artist’s early days, critics derided his work as violent and unappealing, Janet Flanner writes. By the ...

Try looking out. Henri Matisse used to look out ... more closely at how it was made — what precise shapes Matisse cut the ...

A new Henri Matisse retrospective in Basel, Switzerland offers visitors a rare chance to follow his artistic journey via ...

“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 ...

Icarus Plate, Henri Matisse, 1947, paper cut out and gouache Henri Matisse played with ideas of positive and negative shapes with his cut-out works. With Icarus, is the black figure a positive ...

Fifty paintings, a dozen sculptures, as many gouache cut-outs: the Beyeler Fondation’s stunning new exhibition Matisse: ...

The prints on show at Beverley Art Gallery show work created by Matisse in the last few years of his life An exhibition of French artist Henri Matisse's famous cut-out art has gone on show in East ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Fifty paintings, a dozen sculptures, as many gouache cut-outs: the Beyeler Fondation’s stunning new ...

Positive shapes are the shapes of actual objects. Negative shapes are the areas between these objects. The way positive and negative shapes act together creates the atmosphere of a composition.