Matisse

Fauvism, The Dance

The painter of joy. Where his contemporaries fractured form, Matisse liberated color — flat, bold, decorative — and used it to create art of sensuous, luminous pleasure. The Dance and the late paper cutouts achieve a simplicity that took a lifetime to reach.

Key works

• The Dance1910— Five figures, three colors, pure movement
  Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / Museum of Modern Art, New York (two versions)
• The Red Studio1911— A room dissolved into color
  Museum of Modern Art, New York

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