{"id":60161,"date":"2015-01-29T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=60161"},"modified":"2015-01-25T12:10:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T17:10:05","slug":"matisse-art-for-kids-at-the-cazenovia-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=60161","title":{"rendered":"Matisse: Art for Kids at the Cazenovia Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Caz<\/a>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 Jan. 2015) Pat Hill and Jenna Wright are calling children ages 8 to 14 to the Cazenovia Public Library on Friday Feb. 6\u00a0from\u00a01:30 to 3 p.m. for\u00a0Matisse,\u00a0The Astonishing World Of Cut-Out Art, the fourth installment of \u201cArt For Kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Join in this unique and wonderful program, inspired by the current exhibition, \u201cHenri Matisse: The Cut-Outs: A Modern Master\u2019s Final Years,\u201d\u00a0on display through Feb. 10\u00a0at The Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.<\/p>\n

Participants will examine the exuberant creations of the artist\u2019s later years and will attempt to \u201cpaint with scissors,\u201d creating our own mural, inspired by the bold colors and exaggerated forms of the Matisse cut-outs.<\/p>\n

Considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th\u00a0century, Henri Matisse was born Dec. 31, 1869 in the textile town of Le Cateau-Cambr\u00e9sis, France.\u00a0 He lived in a weaver\u2019s cottage above his family\u2019s seed shop and worked as a legal clerk for a time.\u00a0 He eventually went on to study law in Paris and acquired a position at a law office, arranging to take morning drawing classes before work.<\/p>\n

At the age of 21, Matisse suffered a serious\u00a0attack of appendicitis. It was during his recovery that he began to paint, using art supplies gifted to him by his mother.<\/p>\n

Matisse later recalled, \u201cFrom the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.\u201d<\/p>\n

A draftsmen, sculptor, illustrator, painter, and cut-out master, Matisse forged an artistic career that spanned six decades. His style developed through several phases, yet an underlying theme reigned throughout that reflected a single goal: to discover “the essential character of things” and to produce an art “of balance, purity, and serenity.\u201d<\/p>\n

His unique cut-out pieces emerged in the final stages of his life, when disease had rendered him an invalid, confined to his bed.\u00a0 He died on Nov. 3, 1954.<\/p>\n

After studying several examples of Matisse\u2019s cut-outs, participants will have the opportunity to use the mediums of cloth and paper to create their own cut-outs, which will be added to a large-scale mural to be displayed at the library. In addition, there will be ample opportunity to create a personal piece of art to take home.<\/p>\n

Attendees at any of the 2014-2015 \u201cArt for Kids\u201d programs will be entered to win an art kit that was generously donated by a dear friend of the Cazenovia Public Library.<\/p>\n

To ensure program quality, class size is limited.\u00a0 Stop by or call the library at 655- 9322 to reserve a spot.<\/p>\n

For more information on \u201cArt For Kids\u201d or other events at the Cazenovia Public Library, call 655-9322 or visit\u00a0www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 Jan. 2015) Pat Hill and Jenna Wright are calling children ages 8 to 14 to the Cazenovia Public Library on Friday Feb. 6\u00a0from\u00a01:30 to 3 p.m. for\u00a0Matisse,\u00a0The Astonishing World Of Cut-Out Art, the fourth installment of \u201cArt For Kids.\u201d Join in this unique and wonderful program, inspired by the current exhibition, \u201cHenri […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Caz-library.jpg?fit=450%2C212&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-fEl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}