Henri Matisse Jazz. Drawing with Scissors
Drawing with scissorsBy Henri Matisse Jazz
Length28m
About this audiobook
In Jazz, Matisse composes with scissors what he could no longer paint with brushes. From this limitation emerged a new kind of freedom — a whirlwind of shapes and colours, a dance that is both joyful and profound. Page after page, he cuts, paces, invents a visual language of striking intensity, somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Conceived as an artist's book, Jazz brings together the famous cut-outs and handwritten texts in which Matisse reflects on art, colour, music, and life. The silence of the images enters into a dialogue with the words — like breaths, surges, pauses. A final masterpiece, Jazz is also a celebration of vitality, movement, and light — a timeless work that still dazzles with its expressive force and brilliance.
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GenreOther
Length28 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 16, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
11YOUNG PAINTERS
2PREFACE
12HAPPINESS
3THE BOUQUET
13LAGOONS
4THE PLANE
14HAPPY ARE THOSE WHO
5THE CHARACTER OF A FACE
15FUTURE LIFE
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6DRAWING WITH SCISSORS
16JAZZ
7MY CURVES AREN’T CRAZY
17IMAGE TABLE
8A NEW PAINTING
18TIMELINE
9A MUSICIAN SAID
19Henri Matisse. A quest for light, colour and freedom
10DO I BELIEVE IN GOD?
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