HENRI MATISSE

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This week featured Artist - HENRI MATISSE

Henri Matisse is a French artist known for making colorful works of art. He used a variety of materials in his work, ...including oil paint, bronze and he would also make drawings using charcoal. He was a draughtsman, print maker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.


 During his old age he worked on decoupage in his later years while he was in a wheelchair and couldn't paint anymore. Matisse explained that those cut-outs were his best work. He began to work with brightly colored paper and used scissors to cut out shapes, animals, leaves, dancers and flowers and then arrange them that makes a unique creations..
This is the unique experience instead of drawing and painting this time kids made their landscape with paper cutouts..



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