Comparing Two Dancers And Paper Cuts

I’m looking at how paper has been used in art, and the ways it has changed between 1936 and 2012. I have chosen to look at Henri Matisse and Marc Hagan-Guirey and how they have both used paper. Matisse created a series of work simply entitled Paper Cuts and I am going to look at Two Dancers or in French Figure de ballet avec deux danseurs (See Figure 1). He created this paper cut in 1936. I’ve chosen to compare Matisse’s work with Marc Hagan-Guirey’s Horrogami series, whilst looking more in depth at The Addams Family Mansion (See Figure 2) from 2012. I want to look at how they present paper in an expressionist and quite a minimal way. Matisse uses paper as the work itself and he cuts or rips it instinctively to create the piece. Whereas Hagan-Guirey
He was a key artist in the early 20th century, and he was a leading name in fauvism, which in English means ‘the wild beasts’. “It represented the birth of the school of Paris, and shared (with expressionism proper) the responsibility for creating art of the twentieth century” . It was a huge art movement, and very important in terms of how art had changed, and Matisse was central to this, his work was very expressive, but also very fauve in terms more of colour. It has been said that there “was never a movement called expressionism” because “all art is expressive”. Matisse does fulfil this statement, as the majority of artists connected to an expressionist style were painters. However, Matisse’s paper cuts were seen as just as artistic and expressionist as a
It is much more modern way of using paper and modern technology with using the light as a backing, but the buildings are very expressive and almost minimal, as they only contain the details which need to be there. “It celebrated rationalism and a mathematical way of thinking”, he wanted to create a clear representation of the building, but not through a simple drawing. The work was made simply because he was shown around Ennis House, and wanted to make a gift for the person who showed him it. “The artist may choose a subject which in itself provokes strong