"Matisse, aged 70, began his cutouts during the second world war when, recovering from an operation, he was frail in body but rejuvenated in spirit and invented the medium of cutting into sheets of coloured gouache."
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April 11, 2026 - 21:23 UTC

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Bees swarm, swallows swerve, a shark swims the wall ... with a pair of giant dress-making scissors, Matisse cut himself free from the miseries of illness and old age, creating luscious cut-outs that unleashed a new art.
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*forgot the quotation marks, I did not write this myself. Credit nigellp.com
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