Matisse and his abstract colorful paper cuts
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was born in Cato, a small town in northern France, to a family of seed merchants and paint merchants. He died in Cimiaz, Nice. He was one of the most influential figures in the early 20th century. The leader of the avant-garde art school Brutalism. Matisse engaged in legal affairs in his early years and switched to painting at the age of 23. His later works have unique aesthetic concepts. Bold colors, concise shapes, harmonious compositions and strong decoration form his unique painting style.
In his later years, Matisse used colored paper-cutting to explore color relationships, and his painting style remained active until his death. The old Matisse was too weak to stand in front of his easel, so he cut out different shapes from colored paper and then collaged them into huge pictures. This became Matisses closest work to abstraction. According to a female assistant who cared for the elderly Matisse all day long, after Matisse had cancer surgery in 1951, although he could only sit in the hospital bed all day, he kept cutting and cutting on the paper he had painted. Then he directed his assistants to pin the cut works to the wall with thumbtacks. The entire wall of the room was covered with colorful paper-cut works. Matisse created about 200 paper-cut works throughout his life, and some of the most famous ones took less than 20 minutes to complete.
Matisses colorful paper-cut collages, like his other paintings, are not intended to deliberately depict trivial details of objects, nor are they simple statements of historical events, but rather a representation of the artists inner fantasy. artistic expression. Matisses paper-cuts are full of strong fantasy sentiment, creating a mythical dream-like realm. There is always a strong vitality active in the works, filled with the breath of spring, bright and cheerful. He likes to use black, white, yellow, peach, dark blue and other colors in the same picture. Red versus green, blue versus orange, yellow versus purple. The sharp color contrast expresses the painters specific spirit and emotion. This is a consistent feature of Matisses expression, and is very similar to the color characteristics of our countrys folk art. This is the return to simplicity of human color emotions, and it is also the coincidence of Chinese and Western art forms.
"Beasts of the Sea" This work perfectly presents the feeling of underwater fish, seaweed, seahorses, and shallow water boats walking freely under the water, creating an underwater world that we can never reach. He uses geometric forms to express the colors of nature , showing the painters excellent talent for graphics and color. From this outstanding paper-cut work, we can feel that Matisse was the greatest colorist master of the 20th century. Matisse deeply understood how to use graphics and color. elements, how to skillfully combine colors and shapes. It can be said that all Matisses works are a perfect fit of graphics and colors.
