The Open Window by Henri
Matisse is among the very first fauve works. Fauvism was the first of the avant-garde
movement that flourished in France. The Fauve painters were the first to break
with Impressionism as well as with older traditional methods of perception. You see sailboats and a balcony with
flowerpots. The colors used were how Matisse conceived and structured his image.
The colors of the objects are not the conventional, which is a major point of
Fauve Art. Fauvism lets the artist express exactly how he sees and feels. The
leader of this movement was Matisse, who had arrived at the Fauve style after
earlier experimenting with the various Post-Impressionist styles and e
Neo-Impressionism. These influences inspired him to reject traditional three
dimensional space.
A quote from Henri
Matisse
“Construction by
colored surfaces. Search for intensity of color, subject matter being
unimportant. Reaction against the diffusion of local tone in light.
Light...expressed by a harmony of intensely colored surfaces. “
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