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Black Leaf on Green Background
Black Leaf on Green Background (1952) is a collage by Henri Matisse. The medium is gouache and cut paper on paper. It is in the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas. During the early-to-mid-1940s Matisse was in poor health, and by 1950 he stopped painting in favor of his paper cutouts. "Black Leaf on Green Background" is an example of Matisse's final body of works known as the "cutouts".
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- Menil Collection
a coiled or woven bamboo-strip base often mixed with horsehair. The thitsee may be mixed with ashes or sawdust to form a putty-like substance called "thayo" which can be sculpted. The object is coated layer upon layer with thitsee and thayo to make a smooth surface, polished and engraved with intricate designs, commonly using red, green and yellow colors on a red or black background. "Shwezawa" is a distinctive form in its use of gold leaf to fill in the designs on a black background.