I feel, as an art critic, I should know enough about ... closely at how it was made — what precise shapes Matisse cut the colored paper into and exactly how they have been arranged to suggest ...

“Cut-and-pasted paper was a way for a painter to conceptualize his work. Picasso and then Matisse took this from a low level, a hidden technique, and put it out front, on the surface, in the art ...

In September 1940, less than three months after Paris had surrendered to Hitler’s armies, artist ... Matisse gradually abandoned easel painting, experimenting with prints, inventing cut-paper ...

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs is on at the Tate Modern from Thursday 17 April until Sunday 7 September 2014 ...