12.16.2014

Matisse Cutouts

At first, Matisse worried that working with cut paper was cheating—a shortcut to painting—and he kept it a secret. “It is necessary not to say anything about this,” he wrote to his son Pierre, in 1931. 
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/moma-cutouts-sophie-matisse?int-cid=mod-latest