Henri Matisse’s The Swimming Pool (1952) is a skeletal vision of summer. It features only ripples of blue against a tan background, so it’s the viewer who conjures the leaping bodies, the shapes of ...

Nothing readied me for the visual thunder, physical profundity, and oceanic joy of Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at MoMA. In The Cut-Outs, Matisse found the artistic estuary he’d always been looking for ...

Henri Matisse was one of the great artists of the 20th century. What most people do not know, however–and what exhibitions and art critics tend to ignore–is that Matisse underwent a dramatic and ...

“Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs” is now the most well-attended show in the history of the Tate Modern. All signs point to a bonanza for MoMA when the stateside edition opens there later this fall. Like, ...

After Henri Matisse’s body was weakened by a cancer operation in 1941, the French artist began “painting with scissors,” creating collages with paper shapes. The works, many of which he made in the ...

Playful, daring and immediate, Henri Matisse’s cutouts incite the giddiness of a circus; the reveries of a tropical paradise; the dynamic, interwoven eroticism of an orgy. No matter how well you think ...

Henri Emile Benoît Matisse was known for his mastery of many different styles, from painting and illustration to sculpture and collage. Henri Matisse had “two lives” artistically. He was known for his ...

LONDON (AP) — A huge new Henri Matisse show in London is many things — bold, colorful, exuberant. It’s also a great advertisement for the creativity of old age. The 130 works displayed at Tate Modern ...

Walk into the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, and you find yourself surrounded by more than a hundred images that dance and sing, swim and squirm—not to mention the lithe contortions of the ...

After poor health confined Henri Matisse to a wheelchair, he gradually transitioned from painting on canvas to “painting with scissors,” a technique he had previously used to plan large-scale works.