Icarus Plate, Henri Matisse, 1947, paper cut out and gouache Henri Matisse played with ideas of positive and negative shapes with his cut-out works. With Icarus, is the black figure a positive ...

“I began to notice trends appearing that reflected Matisse’s later cut-out works and loved the playfulness ... and I like the shapes and bodies in his pieces,” she says.

In his cutout, a plethora of abstract swimmers, divers, splashes, squiggles, waves and sea-life cut out ... shore. Matisse’s cool-blue bodies are flat, but they breathe and balloon. Shapes ...