{"product_id":"matisses-garden-9780870709104","title":"Matisse's Garden","description":"One day, the French artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird out of a piece of paper. It looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it. Before he knew it, Matisse had transformed his walls into larger-than-life gardens, filled with brightly colored plants, animals, and shapes of all sizes  Featuring cut-paper illustrations and interactive foldout pages, \u003ci\u003eMatisse's Garden\u003c\/i\u003e is the inspiring story of how the artist's never-ending curiosity helped turn a small experiment into a radical new form of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamantha Friedman is an assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is a contributing author of many books on art. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCristina Amodeo is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Milan, Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri Matisse (1869-1954), one of modern art's most important figures, was a painter, draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker who began creating paper cutouts in the 1940s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Museum of Modern Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641585078546,"sku":"9780870709104","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7627aea1-1da3-4354-8e0c-dbdec729b46d.jpg?v=1733025360","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/matisses-garden-9780870709104","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}