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presents, candy containers, tea sets, and table services. The practice caught on and became so important that girls were required to learn the art in childhood.
From fairly simple designs, subject matter branched out into dragon^, grotesque gods, ferocious animals, and almost anything else that struck the imagination.
Wars and changing dynasties pushed the art of paper cutting southward and finally to the West, where it took on a character of its own and has remained popular even to this day.
The great modern artist Henri Matisse loved to work with paper cutouts. “The cutout paper allows me to draw in color,” he said. “It is a simplification. Instead of drawing an outline and filling
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