Matisse: Drawing with Scissors - Exhibition At Swanson Gallery
26th May 2009
3rd June - to 27the June 2009
Swanson Gallery, Davidson's Lane, Thurso
Matisse: Drawing with Scissors
The French painter, sculptor and designer, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the 20th century's most influential artists. His vibrant works are celebrated for their extraordinary richness and luminosity of colour.
Drawing with Scissors is a Hayward Touring exhibition from the Southbank Centre, featuring 35 lithographic prints of the famous cut-outs which were produced in the last four years of his life when the artist was confined to his bed. It includes many of his iconic images, such as The Snail and the Blue Nudes.
Matisse continued creating highly original works into his eighties. For his cut-outs he used paper hand-painted with gouache, laid down in abstract or figurative patterns: 'the paper cut-out allows me to draw in the colour � Instead of drawing the outline and putting the colour inside it�I draw straight into the colour'. The colours he used were so strong that he was advised by his doctor to wear dark glasses!
The lithographic reproductions in this exhibition are taken from a special double issue of Verve, a review of art and literature, published by T�riade, a major publisher of fine art books in 1958.
Matisse began his working life as a lawyer, before going to Paris to study art in 1890. At first strongly influenced by the Impressionists, he soon created his own style, using brilliant, pure colours, and started making sculptures as well as paintings. In 1905 he and his colleagues were branded the Fauves (wild beasts) because of their unconventional use of colour, and it was during this time that he painted his celebrated Luxe, Calme et Volupt� (Luxury, Tranquillity and Delight).
'There is no gap between my earlier pictures and my cut-outs', Matisse wrote, "I have only reached a form reduced to the essential through greater absoluteness and greater abstraction".
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