Characteristics of Matisse’s paper-cut shapes

Matisse paper cuttings

Matisses colorful paper cutouts can be seen as representative of his abstract style. Matisses abstractions are characterized by expressiveness, simplification, exaggeration and other characteristics, but most of them retain the impression of the objective world, while most of his paper-cuts only have vaguely discernible traces of nature.

< /p>

Matisses artistic creation walked on the two paths of luxurious decoration and purity and simplicity, and both made outstanding achievements. His paper-cuts are extremely simplified in shape, yet deformed and exaggerated. He uses simple lines and color blocks to express the world he perceives, whether it is exciting, sad, turbulent, quiet, passionate, or joyful. For example: "Flowing Hair" and "Blue Nude Woman" use the method of drilling into the characters in a rectangular space, once again opening up and developing a new realm of artistic expression: cut, simple, concise and compatible.

The large-scale paper-cut mural (Polynesian Sky) produced for Australia features silvery-white seabirds flying in different directions and postures on the dark blue and light blue ground, spreading their wings stretched out and drifting with the wind. Flying appears to be extraordinarily indulgent and casual, with a sense of freedom where the sea is wide for fish to jump and the sky is high for birds to fly. It expresses the soothing poetry and the freshness, tranquility and beauty unique to the Oceania sky. The image is discernible but not rigidly true. .