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Who was Henri Benoît Matisse?

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse ( French: [???i emil b?nwa matis]; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

How did Henri Matisse influence modern art?

The remarkable career of Henri Matisse, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, whose stylistic innovations (along with those of Pablo Picasso) fundamentally altered the course of modern art and affected the art of several generations of younger painters, spanned almost six and a half decades.

When did Henri Matisse start making paper cut-outs?

The forthcoming exhibition of Henri Matisse’s ground-breaking paper cut-outs, made between 1943 and 1954, is the most comprehensive to date. With more than 120 works, many seen together for the first time, it shows the artist at the height of his inventive powers in the last decades of his life, as one of the co-curators of the exhibition writes

What did Matisse call his last 14 years of life?

He called the last fourteen years of his life "une seconde vie", meaning his second life. When talking about his work, Matisse mentioned that, while his mobility was limited, he could wander through gardens in the form of his artwork.