Matisse• Henri Matisse was born

on 31st December 1869, and died in 1954. He was 84.

• He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is best known as a painter.

• Matisse also started to create large scale cut paper collages. He called the technique ‘painting with scissors’

How Many Differences can you spot?

CUT OUTS

What is this cut out supposed to be?

CUT OUTS

What is this cut out supposed to be?

How big do you think it is?

CUT OUTS

What is this cut out supposed to be?

How big do you think it is?

Matisse was in a wheel chair during his later years; which resulted in him creating some of his most well known cut-out pieces.

After he could no longer stand for extended periods of time, Matisse

began creating works using a pair of scissors and paper. He used a long stick to assemble them on his walls

until he was happy with the arrangement. He called this

technique ‘painting with scissors’

EVEN THOUGH HE WAS LIMITED IN WHAT HE COULDDO HE STILL WAS ABLE TO CREATE WONDERFUL THINGS!

PAINTING WITH SCISSORS.

MATISSE CUT-OUT FIGURES……..

PAINTING WITH SCISSORSIf you have coloured papers use those for your piece. IF NOT try cutting out shapes and colouring them with paints or whatever you have.

Now try creating your own dancing figure in the cut-out style

of Matisse.

Do not draw any outlines.

Take a risk and just cut the shapes.

DANCING FIGURES

HERE ARE SOME OF HIS ‘PAINTINGS WITH SCISSORS’FOR INSPIRATION…

The Snail, 1953

Lagoon, 1944

Anfitrite, 1947

Polinesia, The Sky, 1947

Panel with mask, 1947

The Eschimo, 1947

La Perruche et la sirenne, 1952

The Beasts of the Sea, 1950

Blue Nude, 1950

The Creole Dancer, 1950

La Gerbe, 1953

HERE ARE SOME FURTHER IDEAS FOR THIS TERM… MAYBE TRY ONE A WEEK!

Master Matisse

Research and create a mini biography about Matisse and his progression as an

artist. Can you discover why he used simple cut outs of coloured paper in his

later life?

Delightful Decoupage

Discover this technique that Matisse used in the later part of his career. What does it

need? How do you do it? Experiment with using decoupage in a picture. Send me what

you can make!

Matisse makes _____

Choose another famous painting or artist can you transform one of their pictures

into a piece in the style of Matisse?

Children’s choice

Create your own picture of something in your home inspired by Matisse’s life or his style. Create something bright and

colourful using decoupage.

Matisse and Music

Choose one of Matisse’s decoupage pieces and try to think of what music goes best with the art? Or create a dance that expresses the

picture?

Serious scissors

Put away the pencils and pens. Create an amazing piece of art just using some

paper and some scissors. Focus on the shapes you create to construct an

amazing picture. It doesn’t have to be exactly like a photo. Have a look at the

snail by Henri Matisse.