10 questions
What country was Henri Matisse from?
England
America
Germany
France
What was the new form of Art Matisse discovered?
Collage
Painting
Cut-outs
Combines
What often inspired Matisse's 'cut-outs'?
Buildings and cities
Nature and dancers
Transport and movement
Maps, old letters and diaries.
What did Matisse call this new art technique?
Scissors art
Painting with cutters
Collage
Painting with scissors
At what stage in his life did Matisse start creating this style of art?
When he was a young boy
During his thirties
In his later life after a serious illness
While he was studying at university
What other artist was Matisse famously friends with?
Paul Cezanne
Claude Monet
Pablo Picasso
Salvador Dali
On what scale were Matisse's cut-outs?
Small artwork; A4/ A3 in size
Medium size works to be framed
Large scale piece sometimes created directly onto walls
Postage stamp size
Describe Matisse's Cut-Outs
Simplistic, childlike, naive, pure, joyful
Complicated, dark, sad
Realistic, tonal, use of perspective
3D, sculptural, multifaceted
Previous to his cut outs Matisse was best known as....
A soldier
A painter
A sculptor
A carpenter
With which art movement was Matisse associated as a painter?
The Impressionists
The Cubists
The Surrealists
The Fauves