Matisse

Henri Matisse was a genius at painting and drawing. In the late 1940's when illness forced him to spend most of his time at his home in Nice, Matisse turned almost exclusively to cut paper as his primary medium, introducing a radical new medium that came to be called a découpage (cut-out). He transformed his home into an art studio, where Matisse would cut painted sheets into forms of varying shapes and sizes which he then arranged into lively compositions, striking for their play with color and contrast.