Icarus
Matisse, Henri

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Alternative Title
Plate 8
Description
Color pochoir; Image: 16-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches (41.9 x 26.cm); Sheet: 16-1/2 x 25.2 inches (41.9 x 64 cm)
"This bold and playful image is one of twenty plates Matisse created to illustrate his groundbreaking book "Jazz." The illustrations derive from maquettes of cut and pasted colored papers, which were then printed using a stencil technique known as "pochoir." Here, the mythological figure Icarus is presented in a simplified form floating against a royal blue nighttime sky. Matisse's flat, abstracted forms and large areas of pure color marked an important change in the direction of his later work and ultimately influenced "hard-edge" artists of the 1960s like Ellsworth Kelly and Al Held." -- From the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. Accessed 10/6/03
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=9&full=1&item=1983%2E1009%2E8 full view
Type of Work
Screen printSubject
Illustration of Books, Stencils (Images), Icarus (Greek mythology), Abstraction, Artists' books, Cutouts, Abstract prints, Art, French --20th century
Rights
Rights Statement
Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only
Item is Part of
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