In his old age, he worked with painted paper and scissors, making collages. He also experimented with other techniques like cubism and pointillism. Henri matisse biography life, family, childhood, children. Heres a collection of excellent story, information, and project books about matisse for children to inspire you. After the war of 187071 his family moved to bohainenvermandois, france. Matisse died of a heart attack in nice, alpesmaritimes.
Matisse studied law from 1887 to 1891 and then decided to go to paris, france, to become a painter. He started painting seriously in his early forties. One day, the artist henri matisse cut a small bird from a piece of white paper. Its a delightful picture book that introduces children to henri matisse through the story of the chapel of the rosary and lovely reproductions of matisse s work. The cutouts is a groundbreaking reassessment of this important body of work. Henri matisse art books for children famous artists art projects for children art history for young artists henri matisse art books for children is part of children art book childrens books about matisse, teaching resources to learn about matisse, matisse art projects for children, matisse lesson plans. His use of colour and simple materials makes him the perfect artist to study with your children. He was also known as le douanier the customs officer, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. Matisse made copies of many paintings in the louvre to learn painting. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisses father was a corn merchant, his mother an amateur painter.