What a pleasure to see Matisse’s The Snail again at the Tate Gallery in London. I adore this gouache découpée! Yes, adore is exactly my feeling. It brings a smile to my face. Me…happy. I can’t take these pasted blocks of complementary colors in all at once. My visual path becomes the snail’s path and I succumb to the color in snail time. O the color, the movement, and the irregular cuts. It’s just the best. I am so in awe of this cutout. Paper, gouache, scissors and…Matisse’s genius give me such happiness and inspire my creativity. The Tate honors The Snail with its own wall. Of course! Thank goodness. You don’t want to scurry on past this gift of pure joy.
Before I left for England, I had laid out a small work that made me think of The Snail. Now it’s pasted.
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