← All artists
Woman with a Hat, 1905 — Wikipedia ↗
“When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky. I seek to use colour to express my feelings, not to copy nature.”
Henri Matisse
Painter · Fauvism · 1869–1954
French fauvist who treated colour as the architecture of feeling, even from a wheelchair cutting paper.
The Palette
Curatorial Note
“When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky. I seek to use colour to express my feelings, not to copy nature.”
French fauvist who treated colour as the architecture of feeling, even from a wheelchair cutting paper.