Digital Story Example: Matisse – Painting with Scissors

Matisse – Painting with Scissors by Kyle Muller is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Synopsis: Henri Matisse faces a physical setback after decades of painting and devises a new technique to continue his creative passion.

Content & Creation: All visual content for this project comes from existing photographs of Matisse and his paintings pulled from online collections. Please note that use of any copyright material falls under the principles of Fair Use per category 1 (providing commentary/critique) and category 2 (illustration/example/education). This video was edited using Adobe Premiere Pro. Title slides and credits were created using Photoshop to generate the paper texture. The narration is self-recorded and all other audio elements are Creative Commons assets.

Image Credits:

• Henri Matisse (1933) by Carl Van Vechten from the New York Public Library Digital Collections, (© Van Vechten Trust)
• Henri Matisse (1933) by Carl Van Vechten from the New York Public Library Digital Collections, (© Van Vechten Trust)
• Press clipping, Les Fauves: Exhibition at the Salon d’Automne, in L’Illustration, 4 November 1905, from Wikipedia (Public Domain)
• Femme au chapeau (1905) © Henri Matisse from Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain in USA)
• Open Window, Collioure (1905) © Henri Matisse from Wikipedia (Public Domain in USA)
• Les toits de Collioure (1905) © Henri Matisse from Wikipedia (Public Domain in USA)
• Luxe, Calme et Volupté (1904) © Henri Matisse from Wikipedia (Public Domain in USA)
• Le bonheur de vivre (1905-1906) © Henri Matisse from Wikipedia (Public Domain in USA)
• La danse I (1909) © Henri Matisse from Wikipedia (Public Domain in USA)
• La Raie Verte (1905) © Henri Matisse from Wikipedia (Public Domain in USA)
• Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) © Henri Matisse from Wikipedia (Public Domain in USA)
• Portrait du peintre (1918) © Henri Matisse from Wikipedia (Public Domain in USA)
• Matisse at the Hôtel Régina, Nice, c. 1952 by Lydia Delectorskaya, from the Museum of Modern Art, (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• Portrait of Henri Matisse standing at his easel (1913) by Alvin Langdon Coburn from Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain in USA)
• Matisse at the Hôtel Régina, Nice, with The Parakeet and the Mermaid, c. 1952,  by Lydia Delectorskaya, from the Museum of Modern Art, (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• Matisse’s studio, Hôtel Régina, Nice, c. 1953, by Lydia Delectorskaya from Biography (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• Souvenir d’Océanie (1952-1953) by Henri Matisse, from Biography, (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• The Parakeet and the Mermaid (1952) by Henri Matisse, from the Museum of Modern Art, (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• Blue Nude II (1952) by Henri Matisse, from Biography, (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• La Chute d’scare (1943) by Henri Matisse from Biography (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• Artist Henri Matisse in front of one of his drawings at his home in Nice in 1948 by Gjon Mili, from Biography, (© The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
• Nuit de Noël (1952) by Henri Matisse, from Biography (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• Zulma (1950) by Henri Matisse, from Biography (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• La Gerbe (1953) by Henri Matisse, from Biography (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• Four states of Ivy in Flower (1953) by Lydia Delectorskaya, from the Museum of Modern Art, (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• Ivy in Flower (1953) by Henri Matisse, from art-Matisse.com, (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)
• Matisse in Vence (1947) by Archive Photos/Getty, from the New Yorker (© Getty Images)
• Palmette (1947) by Henri Matisse, from the New Yorker, (© 2014 Succession H. Matisse)

Audio Credits:

• Scissors cut paper 2 by ZapSplat (Creative Commons by Attribution per ZapSplat license)
• Scissors cut paper close up 11 by ZapSplat (Creative Commons by Attribution per ZapSplat license)
• Duet Musette by Kevin MacLeod (Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0))

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