Matisse blue nude matisse blue nude ii
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Blue Nude II is the second artwork of the Blue Nudes series of cut-outs by Henri Matisse, completed in Contents. 1 Background; 2 Cut-out genre.
Henri Matisse’s “Blue Nude” series, paper cutouts on canvas created at the end of his long and prolific life, represented the culmination of his exploration of abstraction. Along with Pablo Picasso, Matisse ( – ) dominated 20th century art. Henri Matisse (
Description:Trapped, fopr the most part, in a wheelchais as a result of surgery for stomach cancer, Matisse was largely confined to art that could be made sitting down: The pieces below began life as sheets of paper that Matisse hand-cut and hand-painted. He then directed his assistants where to post them on large sheets of paper. For an issue of Verve devoted to his later works, Matisse supervised the production of lithographs after his paper cutouts. About half-way through the project, Matisse died and the works were printed as lithographs after the paper cut outs in a special issue of Verve entitled Les Derniers Oeuvres de Matisse and published in The ones that were produced before his death bear his signature in the stone; those after, lack it.
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