Color Your Own Matisse Paintings

Color superb black-and-white reproductions of 30 paintings by modern master: Blue Nude I, La Danse, Icarus, The Circus, The Sword Swallower, The Thousand and One Nights, The Moorish Café, many others. Captions.

Thirty compositions give would-be artists of all ages a chance to re-create ? or even transform ? works by Pissarro, Renoir, van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne, Rousseau, Matisse, and other masters.

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Thirty striking works, ranging from conventional portraits to geometric abstracts, include paintings by Frida Kahlo, Grandma Moses, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and other distinguished artists.

One day, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) cut a small bird out of a piece of white paper. It was a simple shape, but he liked the way it looked and didn't want to throw it away, so he pinned it to the wall of his room. But the bird looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it, and before he knew it, he had transformed his walls into larger-than-life gardens filled with brightly coloured plants and animals and shapes of all sizes. Featuring colourful cut-paper illustrations and Matisse's own cut-outs, Matisse's Garden is the inspiring story of how the artist's never-ending curiosity and continuous process of trying new things helped turn a small experiment into a radical new form of art. Children will see how Matisse used nothing but paper and scissors to create simple shapes like squares, leaves and birds, and experimented with scraps of leftover paper and new colour combinations to create lush gardens on his studio walls.

Tells the story of the artist Matisse designing the Chapelle du Rosaire.

Step into the colorful world of Henri Matisse and his magnificent paper cutouts in this biography by acclaimed picture book creator Jeanette Winter. In a small weaving town in France, a young boy named Henri-Emile Matisse drew pictures everywhere, and when he grew up, he moved to Paris and became a famous artist who created paintings that were adored around the world. But late in life a serious illness confined him to a wheelchair, and amazingly, it was from there that he created among his most beloved works—enormous and breathtaking paper cutouts. Based on the life of Henri Matisse, this moving and inspirational picture book biography includes a note from the author, dynamic quotes from Matisse himself, and an illuminating look at a little-known part of a great artist’s creative process.

Hailed by both Matisse and Picasso as "the father of us all," Paul Cézanne bridged 19th-century Impressionism and the radically different world of 20th-century art. These excellent illustrations allow colorists to "paint" Cézanne's most famous creations, including Leda and the Swan, Still Life with Apples and Peaches, Boy in a Red Waistcoat, Mont Sainte-Victoire, and many others.