Keesia and Henri Matisse have the same birthday--New Year's Eve! That's why she picks him for her art report and learns all about his paintings, books and cut-outs. Full-color illustrations.

162 portraits and still-lifes, each expanding on a theme—a face, a vase of flowers, etc.

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.

This collection of work by Henri Matisse and Ellsworth Kelly is based on anxhibition of more than 100 rarely exhibited drawings organized by the Centreompidou in Paris. A comparative display, the exhibition focuses on the rolef drawing in the work of these two distinctly different 20th-century masters.Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is recognized for the lyrical form and decorativeesthetic seen in his paintings and colourful paper cut-outs. Ellsworth Kellyborn 1923) is known for the monumental abstract forms of his sculpture andhe bold colours of his hard-edge paintings. Yet both artists explored theironcepts in prolific studies of plants, often in series in which each drawingxisted on its own terms as well as part of an infinite process.

"In 1926, French publisher Christian Zervos founded Cahiers d'Art, a journal on contemporary art that soon gained wide recognition in Europe. Originally conceived as a review of modern art, these "Art Notebooks" eventually expanded to include topics relating to architecture, poetry and literature as well." "In 1936, Zervos devoted Cahiers d'art 3-5 to the drawings of Henri Matisse. The collections was published in three editions that year and reprinted by Cahiers d'Art in 1992." "This facsimile edition, based on the 1936 original, includes each of Matisse's thirty-nine drawings. It also includes a preface by Christian Zervos and a poem by Tristan Tzara dedicated to Matisse."--BOOK JACKET.