Matisse: Cahiers d'art, le tournant des années 1930. Arts décoratifs – Arts appliqués specific questions but has also

specific questions but has also brought to light points of convergence

The construction of human identity is always a corollary of their lifestyles

Going back to 1821

Both are open to the surprises of unexpected correspondences

an aspect dangerously obscured by the complex abstraction processes of modern science and by the evolution of school curricula

Matisse: Cahiers d'art, le tournant des années 1930. Arts décoratifs – Arts appliqués specific questions but has alsoThe 1930s marked a turning point in Henri Matisse's work. Despite his success, he grew tired of Nice interiors and languid nudes. With age and fame came rethinking: he needed something new, both in his themes and his painting techniques. Changing scale, he tackled The Dance, a vast mural composition intended for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, and thus made a fresh start, on the threshold of his sixtieth year. Matisse's artistic activity was then