How can one not love that opening line???? Brilliant.

And if anyone provoked and stirred some controversy, it was Matisse.

The article presents one of Matisse’s brilliant works, The Red Studio. It’s a large painting, created in 1911, around 2 meters across. It’s housed at the MoMA in NYC.

What I love…that dark Venetian/Deep shade of Red that conquers the canvas.

Yes, I’m biased. He is my favorite artist. Others come close.

But Matisse? Favorite. Woman in Blue. That won me over years before I discovered Fauvism…

Matisse and Derain created the Fauvist Movement. Maurice de Vlaminck was also a Fauve.

THE MOVEMENT WAS SHORT-LIVED, BUT THE CHANGES THEY MADE WERE PERMANENT.

THE ART WORLD WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME. AS IT WAS.

But that whole Fauvist thing going on…that REVOLUTION.

FAUVIST…FROM LES FAUVES…THE WILD BEASTS…IMAGINE THE UPROAR THEY CAUSED TO EARN THAT ‘NAME’.

Well, this article is about Matisse’s painting The Red Studio. Worth the read and worth the watch (short video on the site).

If you want more info on the Fauvist Movement…check out this article on Bozetto.