Mati and Dada meet French artist Henri Matisse who liked to play with colours, space, and shapes. When he displayed his painting ‘Woman with a Hat’, people called his art “fauve” – crazy! Large hats were all the fashion at the time, and he used unrealistic colours to generate feeling. The objects in his ‘Still Life with Eggplants’ are in a pattern of equal balance. He called his coloured paper cut-outs “drawing with scissors” and he arranged them on canvas until they please him. ‘The Sorrows of the King’ is one of his famous cut-out collages.
