Matisse’s The Joy of Life accompanies an overview of Fauvism, highlighting pure color, simplified forms, liberated brushwork, and the movement’s break with naturalistic representation.
A portrait of Amélie Matisse is transformed through violent brushwork, non-naturalistic color, flattened surface, and chromatic intensity into an iconic declaration of Fauvist painting.
A reclining nude, blue-shadowed body, tropical vegetation, red leaves, and radical deformation transform the classical female nude into a powerful Fauvist modernist composition.
