The color is actually many blues. Hauptman said Matisse describes the cut-outs as "drawing with scissors," or "carving into color," like a sculpture. In the blue nudes, it's possible to see that ...

“I think that kids in school increasingly cut out paper in emulation of Matisse,” Serota said ... and I would defy any child to make a ‘Blue Nude’ that captures the female form to the ...

In the 1940s, Matisse went through his "cut outs" period, in which he subverted ... poised in a sort of mitosis mating dance. Blue forms join hands, dancing to music only Matisse can hear.

The cut-outs are presented here as the climax of ... “Simplicity is complexity resolved,” Brancusi once said. Matisse’s blue nudes could not be better described. The Snail (1953) also ...

the book printed in 1947 from cut-outs Matisse had made three years earlier. You will find all four of the “Blue Nudes,” rarely shown together. “The Swimming Pool,” which belongs to the ...

bolder and more ambitious cut-outs. The vibrant works include Matisse's famous blue nudes — lithe-limbed female forms, cut in a single movement from blue-painted sheets of paper. The biggest ...

Blue figures swim around walls, dancers prance in a circle and flowers sprout on a huge canvas in an exhibition of the cut-out works of French artist Henri Matisse that opened this week.

“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” at the Museum of Modern Art, is the strangest youthquake the world has ever seen—a youthquake dreamed up by an artist in his seventies and sustained straight ...

Try looking out. Henri Matisse used ... I thought about this again when I read Matisse’s own words, uttered four years before his death in 1954: “The sea is blue, but bluer than anyone has ...

It features only ripples of blue against a tan background ... MoMA is hosting a mini reprisal of the 2014 exhibition with “Matisse’s Cut-Outs: A Celebration,” which brings together 10 ...