because that is the only way he would do pictures
because that make's it more Colorful
because that looks Colorful with the oil pastel he uses
Matisse started making paper cutouts when he got cancer.
His series of Blue Nudes are cut-outs from gouache-painted paper.
It is a paper cut-out with gouache color.
Paper cut
When Henri Matisse turned blind, he created 'cut-outs'. He used assistants to cut large pieces of coloured materials for him before sticking them on walls to make collages.Addition:When Matisse started making cut-outs he was bedridden after an operation, not blind. And the cut-outs were not stuck on walls but on paper.
In 1942.
Drawings, paintings, paper cut-outs, sculptures, ...
In 1953. It is a paper cut-out, not an oil painting.
He cut out shapes from paper which his wife had painted in different colours and glued them to another piece of rectangular or square coloured paper using a large and unwieldly pair of scissors.
The medium in Henri matisse's book jazz, would be different colour paper,that different coloured paper is cut out in shapes, then glued onto a white piece of paper.
Henri Matisse.
Oil painting, watercolor, paper cut-outs, sculpture.