The dazzlingly bright cut-outs the Frenchman made in his last decade show a period of vitality and radical reinvention At the start of the Second World War, Henri Matisse found himself, for the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs is soon to close at London's Tate Modern, but the ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — At the end of World War II, when Europe was recovering from the onslaught, the great French artist Henri Matisse was recovering from personal battles. Matisse, then in his ...

A battle with cancer in the 1940s left artist Henri Matisse confined to a wheelchair. Poor health prevented him from painting, but didn't stop him from creating art. Instead of using a paintbrush, he ...

The hottest ticket in New York right now is not The Book of Mormon or Kinky Boots, nor Weezer or The Brain Cloud. It is entry to MOMA's exhibit of nearly 100 colorful scissor-and-paper cutouts by ...

Early in 1945, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) made scissors his chief implement and paper his primary medium. This was a radical reinvention, one born of both physical and artistic necessity. Matisse ...

"I’m sorry. The lecture is completely sold out," a museum representative said. "Sold out! I thought the event was free!" a disappointed prospective attendee responded. Last Thursday, at the Harvard ...

LITTLE ROCK — Like the monochromatic sculptures we featured during the summer, a 20th-century modern artist also inspires this week's project. Henri Matisse was a sculptor and printmaker, but is best ...

The Smart About Art series continues with Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors by Jane O'Connor, illus. by Jessie Hartland. Presented and organized in the style of a grade-school report (and written ...

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