One day, the French artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird out of a piece of paper. It looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it. Before he knew it, Matisse had transformed his walls into larger-than-life gardens, filled with brightly colored plants, animals, and shapes of all sizes! Featuring cut-paper illustrations and interactive foldout pages, Matisse’s Garden is the inspiring story of how the artist’s never-ending curiosity helped turn a small experiment into a radical new form of art.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780870709104
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Publication Date: 10-07-2014
Pages: 48
Product Dimensions: 9.00(w) x 12.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 4 - 8 Years
About the Author
Samantha Friedman is an assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is a contributing author of many books on art. Cristina Amodeo is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Milan, Italy. Henri Matisse (1869–1954), one of modern art’s most important figures, was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker who began creating paper cutouts in the 1940s.