The Horse, the rider and the clown from the illustrated book
‘jazz’ 1947
The Snail 1953
Gouache on paper, cut and pasted on paper
mounted on canvas
support: 2864 x 2870mm
I was in a critique the other day and Matisse’s paper cut outs came up in relation to my self-directed work, so I decided to look into them more - hoping that it would spark an idea so I could take my work further. I started cutting shapes out of sheets of coloured paper and composing them on different types of backgrounds – plain paper, paper that I had painted and coloured card, trying different colours and layouts to see what works.
The main inspiration that Matisse gave me was the scale that he
works on. Some of his works are huge, easily taller than me – this made me want
to work big again, most of the pieces I have done lately are A4 or A3. I want
to do huge wall size pieces that you simply can’t walk past, I'm also want to
try pieces on card or wood – something stronger than paper, it's too curly
with all the glue.
A quality of The Snail piece, which is perhaps my favourite out of his cut outs, is the irony of it. The piece itself is huge (as you can see in the photo on the right) and colourful yet its of a snail - which is brown and dull and small.
I was in a critique the other day and Matisse’s paper cut outs came up in relation to my self-directed work, so I decided to look into them more - hoping that it would spark an idea so I could take my work further. I started cutting shapes out of sheets of coloured paper and composing them on different types of backgrounds – plain paper, paper that I had painted and coloured card, trying different colours and layouts to see what works.
The main inspiration that Matisse gave me was the scale that he
works on. Some of his works are huge, easily taller than me – this made me want
to work big again, most of the pieces I have done lately are A4 or A3. I want
to do huge wall size pieces that you simply can’t walk past, I'm also want to
try pieces on card or wood – something stronger than paper, it's too curly
with all the glue.A quality of The Snail piece, which is perhaps my favourite out of his cut outs, is the irony of it. The piece itself is huge (as you can see in the photo on the right) and colourful yet its of a snail - which is brown and dull and small.
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