henri matisse is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the last century.giant of modern art. at tate modern, the final chapter of his career. when he put down his brush to pick up his scissors and began carving into color. a series of cutouts was born. >> in the final two years, 1952 until 1954, he is then 83. they are the most prolific of his entire life. he is old not in the best of health and cannot move around very much. he talks about bringing the outside world into the four walls of his studio. all the things that are now beyond his reach he re-creates using colored paper. >> his technique of cutting out painted pieces of paper to create art was considered groundbreaking at the time. some even say it made picasso his rival, jealous. and for the first time ever, 120 of these colorful pieces are being shown together. the snail created in 1953 sits next to the larger parakeet and the mermaid. >> he was very close to the end of his life. there were more things that he wanted to do. he found that the clock was ticking. he did not have a long time to say w

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we are surrounded by 5 superb paper cutouts done by henri matisse towards the end of his career in the early 1950s. this is a sky-lit gallery, and what we have done is to cover over the skylights. there is no uv in this room. we use artificial lights that have no uv coming out of them. all light is damaging, but uv is probably the most damaging, particularly to works of art on paper. we can lower the light levels, which we have done, to about 5 footcandles. now, 5 footcandles is about the lowest reading that you will see in a museum setting. if you were to go down in a painting gallery, you might see a footcandle reading of 30 to 40 footcandles. the difference is, with works of art on paper, the light is much more damaging. this is an illuminance meter. actually, we call it a footcandle meter because it takes readings in footcandles. 363 days of the year, you can come here and see matisse's cutouts, but you can only see them for 4 hours per day, not 7 or not 8. that means that we have effectively reduced the exposure time by about half. that's good for the cutouts, and it's good for th