{"product_id":"44628-matisse-cut-outs","title":"Matisse. Scherenschnitte","description":"Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life—he was almost 80 years of age—he developed the technique of “carving into color,” creating bright, bold paper cut-outs. Though dismissed by some contemporary critics as the folly of a senile old man, these gouaches decoupées (gouache cut-outs) in fact represented a revolution in modern art, a whole new medium that reimagined the age-old conflict between color and line . This fresh edition of the first volume of our original award-winning XXL book provides a thorough historical context to Matisse’s cut-outs, tracing their roots in his 1930 trip to Tahiti, through to his final years in Nice. It includes many photos of Matisse, some rare images, by Henri Cartier-Bresson and the filmmaker F. W. Murnau and text from Matisse , publisher E. Tériade , the poets Louis Aragon , Henri Michaux , and Pierre Reverdy , and Matisse’s son-in-law Georges Duthuit . In their deceptive simplicity, the cut-outs achieved both a sculptural quality and an early minimalist abstraction which would profoundly influence generations of artists to come . Exuberant, multi-hued, and often grand in scale, these works are true pillars of 20th-century art, and as bold and innovative to behold today as they were in Matisse’s lifetime.","brand":"Weaving The Planet | Taschen | Alliance","offers":[{"title":"German","offer_id":53458119491797,"sku":"9783836567169","price":160000.0,"currency_code":"COP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6384\/7637\/files\/2a006ceec608826f62cb306a9c880bec.png?v=1773906390","url":"https:\/\/weavingtheplanet.com\/en\/products\/44628-matisse-cut-outs","provider":"Weaving The Planet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}