Henri's Scissors

Author: Jeanette Winter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442464852
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Step into the colorful world of Henri Matisse and his magnificent paper cutouts in this biography by acclaimed picture book creator Jeanette Winter. In a small weaving town in France, a young boy named Henri-Emile Matisse drew pictures everywhere, and when he grew up, he moved to Paris and became a famous artist who created paintings that were adored around the world. But late in life a serious illness confined him to a wheelchair, and amazingly, it was from there that he created among his most beloved works—enormous and breathtaking paper cutouts. Based on the life of Henri Matisse, this moving and inspirational picture book biography includes a note from the author, dynamic quotes from Matisse himself, and an illuminating look at a little-known part of a great artist’s creative process.

Henri Matisse

Author: Henri Matisse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858410517
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description

Chatting with Henri Matisse

Author: Henri Matisse
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606061291
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
In 1941 the Swiss art critic Pierre Courthion interviewed Henri Matisse while the artist was in bed recovering from a serious operation. It was an extensive interview, seen at the time as a vital assessment of Matisse's career and set to be published by Albert Skira's then newly established Swiss press. After months of complicated discussions between Courthion and Matisse, and just weeks before the book was to come out--the artist even had approved the cover design--Matisse suddenly refused its publication. A typescript of the interview now resides in Courthion's papers at the Getty Research Institute. This rich conversation, conducted during the Nazi occupation of France, is published for the first time in this volume, where it appears both in English translation and in the original French version. Matisse unravels memories of his youth and his life as a bohemian student in Gustave Moreau's atelier. He recounts his experience with collectors, including Albert C. Barnes. He discusses fame, writers, musicians, politicians, and, most fascinatingly, his travels. Chatting with Henri Matisse, introduced by Serge Guilbaut, contains a preface by Claude Duthuit, Matisse's grandson, and essays by Yve-Alain Bois and Laurence Bertrand Dorleac. The book includes unpublished correspondence and other original documents related to Courthion's interview and abounds with details about avant-garde life, tactics, and artistic creativity in the first half of the twentieth century.

Colorful Dreamer

Author: Marjorie Blain Parker
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101647930
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
An inspiring portrait of one of the world's most loved artists There was once a boy named Henri, whose dreams were full of color even though his hometown was dreary and gray. His parents expected him to learn a trade when he grew up, but being a law clerk bored him, and he continued to dream of a colorful, exciting life, and of being noticed. Then Henri started painting . . . and kept painting and dreaming and working at his craft until he'd become one of the most admired and famous artists in the world. This lyrical, visually rich picture book is more than an excellent biography; at its core, this remarkable book is an encouragement to never give up on your dreams.

Matisse

Author: Laurence Anholt
Publisher: Anholt's Artists Books for Chi
ISBN: 9780764160479
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Tells the story of the artist Matisse designing the Chapelle du Rosaire.

Henri Matisse

Author: Mike Venezia
Publisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780516261461
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Discusses the life and work of French post-impressionist artist Henri Matisse.

Henri Matisse

Author: Jane O'Connor
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781442003002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Presents the life and work of Henri Matisse in the form of a child's school report, where Keesia learns that over his long career, Matisse made paintings, sculpture, books, costumes, and cut-outs. Simultaneous.

Henri Matisse

Author: Karl D. Buchberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849761291
Category : Art and design
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Henri Matisse is one of the leading figures of modern art. His unparalleled cut-outs are among the most significant of any artist's late works. When ill health first prevented Matisse from painting, he began to cut into painted paper with scissors as his primary technique to make maquettes for a number of commissions, from books and stained glass window designs to tapestries and ceramics. Taking the form of a 'studio diary', the catalogue re-examines the cut-outs in terms of the methods and materials that Matisse used, and looks at the tensions in the works between finish and process; and drawings and colour.

Matisse the Master

Author: Hilary Spurling
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0679434291
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 570

Book Description
With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence of the 20th century in paintings.

Henri Matisse

Author: Kathryn Brown
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789143829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Henri Matisse’s experiments with form and color revolutionized the twentieth-century art world. In this concise critical biography, Kathryn Brown explores Matisse’s long career, beginning with his struggles as a student in Paris and culminating in his celebrated use of paper cutouts and stained glass in the last decade of his life. The book challenges various myths about Matisse and offers a fresh perspective on his creativity and legacy. Chapters explore the artist’s enthusiasm for fashion and cinema, his travels, personal ties, interest in African art, love of literature, and willingness to challenge audience expectations. Through close readings of Matisse’s works, Brown offers new insight into the artist’s friendships and battles with dealers, critics, collectors, and fellow artists.