Henri Matisse JAZZ: Drawing with scissors

By Henri Matisse

In Jazz, Matisse composes with scissors what he could no longer paint with brushes. From this limitation emerged a new kind of freedom - a whirlwind of shapes and colours, a dance that is both joyful and profound. Page after page, he cuts, paces, invents a visual language of striking intensity, somewhere between abstraction and figuration.

Conceived as an artist's book, Jazz brings together the famous cut-outs and handwritten texts in which Matisse reflects on art, colour, music, and life. The silence of the images enters into a dialogue with the words - like breaths, surges, pauses.

A final masterpiece, Jazz is also a celebration of vitality, movement, and light - a timeless work that still dazzles with its expressive force and brilliance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FSFYF2XT
• ISBN13: 9798899562143
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Parkstone Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.6"