Matisse is a world-renowned French artist. He has made outstanding achievements in sculpture, paper-cutting and painting all his life, the most famous of which is painting. However, due to health reasons, Matisse can no longer sit in front of the canvas and draw. Matisse did not give up his artistic pursuit during this period. In his later years, he stopped painting and expressed his artistic inspiration through paper cutting.

Matisse has been engaged in paper cutting for the longest time in his life. It can be said that Matisse took paper-cutting as the end of his artistic career, which made him climb to a new artistic peak. His paper-cutting is graceful and generous, the form is extremely concise and summarized, the language is subtle and beautiful, the shape is exaggerated and imaginative, the color is more pure, clear and lyrical. He does not pursue the shape, but pays attention to vivid freehand brushwork, which is completely a manifestation of freehand brushwork. Some people compare his works to "silent poems" and "tangible music". He developed paper-cutting into modern large-scale architectural murals, enlightened and enriched contemporary mural creation, and expanded social functions for paper-cutting.

For example, in a paper-cut work of Matisse with a blue background, Matisse cut and pasted a black figure on a bright blue canvas with bright colors. The black human body is full of the tension of life, surrounded by bright yellow colored paper, which seems to be full of sparks, as if the life of Mars is being generated.

Features of Matisse's paper-cutting: First, Matisse's paper-cutting works are quite successful. Matisse created a large number of excellent paper-cut works in his life, and the artistic achievements of these works were quite high. Matisse paper-cut has a high artistic level, which is one of the characteristics of Matisse paper-cut. Matisse's famous paper-cut works include Flowing Hair, Naked Girl in Blue, Marine Animals (1950), Arabian Nights (1950), Vegetables (195 1) and Ivy and Ivy.

The second feature of Matisse's paper-cutting: Matisse's paper-cutting works are extremely simplified in shape, but distorted and exaggerated. He used simple lines and color blocks to express his perception of the world, either excited, sad, turbulent, quiet, passionate or happy. 1952, Matisse created Flying Hair and Blue Naked Girl, which cut out the exaggerated and beautiful body beauty with blue paper-cuts, typically showing the artist's sculpture-like description of the whole nude; The Memory of Oceania, which he created at the same time, reached another ideal world of painting with the abstract behavior of characters and the rhythm of color interaction.