Henri Matisse
Matisse's Works of Art:
Paper Cut-out lessons:
Commissioned by the Time Life Company, this festive stained glass window was installed in Rockefeller Center on December 8, 1952, just in time for the holiday season. By this point in his prolific career, the 83-year-old had turned to paper cut-outs as a result of a major surgery that had left him wheelchair-bound. To make Nuit de Noël, the artist cut and pasted brightly colored paper into a preliminary maquette that was sent to a stained-glass craftsman for fabrication. In a comment to Alfred H. Barr Jr., then director of the Museum of Modern Art, Matisse compared the final, roughly 11-foot-tall window to a “performance by an orchestra.”
Stain-glass lesson:
Matisse Egg
Matisse’s cutouts were of different styles and two of them were referred to as organic and geometric shapes. Both were used abundantly in Matisse’s creations, but this lovely egg craft from Matisse Egg/Karuski's Little Shop of Colours makes use of organic shapes cut out of card along with modge podge and a balloon to create a 3D version of La Gerbe.
Henri Matisse Le Gerbe (The Sheaf) 1953
Other Resources:
Collage with Fishbowl lesson:
More information: The Goldfish, 1912 by Henri Matisse