Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs – Tate Modern, 17 April 14
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/henri-matisse-cut-outs
Opening day & way too busy to see anything. As I race through I note the some of the work is abstract impressionism similar to that of Patrick Heron. Later I look into this and learn.
Heron “. . .regarded Matisse as the greatest master of the century and would dearly have loved to elevate Bonnard to second place: these were the two painters from whom he drew most.”
“For a colourist of Heron’s generation, the great challenge and exemplar was the Matisse of the papier decoupées, the abstracts cut and pasted out of sheets of gouache-soaked paper, like the wonderful L’Escargot that Heron saw many times during his visits as a trustee of the Tate.”
http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/mar/22/guardianobituaries.michaelmcnay
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/matisse-the-snail-t00540
