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# Kids Looking at Matisse
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/kids-looking-at-matisse/
- Published: 2014-05-30T15:25:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:44:19.000Z
- Description: I'm a sucker for children's reactions to art, and in this new video by the Tate a bunch of kids share their thoughts about artist Henri Matisse's cut-paper works at the London museum.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Henri Matisse, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

![tate-kids-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/tate-kids-640.jpg)

I’m a sucker for [children’s reactions to art](http://hyperallergic.com/55313/museum-of-modern-art-gets-a-new-audio-tour/), and in this new video by the Tate a bunch of kids share their thoughts about artist Henri Matisse’s [cut-paper works](http://www.henri-matisse.net/cut%5Fouts.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) (*gouaches découpés* for the francophiles) at the London museum.

As one little girl puts it, in what seems like a somewhat creepy dialogue with the dead artist, “You’re doing fairly well for an old man, because my grandpa wouldn’t be able to do that.” Nicely put, kid.