Henri Matisse started making his iconic cut ... the port of Papeete, birds plunging into the sea to fish, coconuts scattered across beaches and windswept palm trees. In terms of productivity ...

Henri Matisse made this “cut-out”, titled ... across walls and evoke such girly things as stars and hearts, fish, and birds. It was the kind of ornament favored in the kindergartens of the ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954 ... the center of a crowded vortex—surrounded by flashes of water, light, fish, flesh and sky. The first sensations include joyousness, ebullience ...

MoMA (Abrams, dist.), $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-87070-910-4 Joining a spate of recent picture books about Matisse that includes The Iridescence of Birds, Henri’s Scissors, and Colorful Dreamer ...

Nothing readied me for the visual thunder, physical profundity, and oceanic joy of Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs ... as those in Fra Angelico. Chinese fish mutate into heraldic underwater beings ...

Henri Matisse came to fame for his wildly ... “What we are telling the universe is, we want the fish to be plenty, we want the birds to come back in the spring, we want the seals to provide ...

“From the moment I held the box of colours in my hands,” Henri ... that shows birds soaring through a muted sandy-brown field of colour. The work originated as a swallow that Matisse had ...

Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were the 20th century’s greatest artistic frenemies. When Gertrude Stein introduced them in 1906, Matisse said he and Picasso were “as different as the north ...