Matisse's garden / Samantha Friedman ; illustrations by Cristina Amodeo ; with reproductions of artworks by Henri Matisse.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2014]Description: 1 volume (unpaged), 6 unnumbered folded leaves : color illustrations ; 31 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0870709100 (hbk.)
- 9780870709104 (hbk.)
- Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954. Works. Selections
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 759.4 F911 | Available | 33111007912302 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
One day, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) cut a small bird out of a piece of white paper. It was a simple shape, but he liked the way it looked and didn't want to throw it away, so he pinned it to the wall of his room. But the bird looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it, and before he knew it, he had transformed his walls into larger-than-life gardens filled with brightly coloured plants and animals and shapes of all sizes. Featuring colourful cut-paper illustrations and Matisse's own cut-outs, Matisse's Garden is the inspiring story of how the artist's never-ending curiosity and continuous process of trying new things helped turn a small experiment into a radical new form of art. Children will see how Matisse used nothing but paper and scissors to create simple shapes like squares, leaves and birds, and experimented with scraps of leftover paper and new colour combinations to create lush gardens on his studio walls.
"This collaboration between Friedman, an assistant curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and Milan-based illustrator Amodeo, focuses on the artist's exploration of cut-paper collage."--Publisher.