1947 Matisse Poster, Paper Cut-Outs - Amphitrite (1995 Re-Issue)

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Date: 1947 (1995 Re-issue)
Size: 22.5 x 33 inches
Artist: Henri Matisse

About the poster: Due to health reasons, Matisse … Read more Date: 1947 (1995 Re-issue)
Size: 22.5 x 33 inches
Artist: Henri Matisse

About the poster: Due to health reasons, Matisse stopped painting in the 1940s and turned almost exclusively to cut-outs as his medium of artistic expression. He "would cut painted sheets into forms of varying shapes and sizes—from the vegetal to the abstract—which he then arranged into lively compositions, striking for their play with color and contrast, their exploitation of decorative strategies, and their economy of means." (MoMA)

About the artist: Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Although he was initially labelled a Fauve (a wild beast), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting. His mastery of the expressive language of colour and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art. See less