Henri Matisse
- 1869 - 1954
- Born in 1869, in France
Henri Matisse began experimenting with "paper cut-outs" in the early 1930s for La Danse, the monumental project for the Barnes Foundation. Using scissors enabled Matisse to "draw in colour", or even "carve in colour". Using these gouache-coloured shapes, he studied different compositions by freely repositioning his figures.