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Fauvism

Woman with a Hat (La femme au chapeau) is a painting by Henri Matisse. An oil on canvas, it depicts Matisse's wife, Amelie, 1905 and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne during the fall of the same year, several other artists known as "Fauves".

Critic Louis Vauxcelles, in comparing the paintings of Matisse and his associates with a Renaissance-type sculpture that shared the room with them, used with the phrase "Donatello chez les fauves..."(Donatello among the wild beasts).His comment was printed in a daily newspaper, and passed into popular usage.Woman with a Hat was at the center of the controversy that led to the term Fauvism.It was also a painting that marked a stylistic shift in the work of Matisse from the Divisionist brushstrokes of his earlier work to a more expressive style. It's loose brushwork and "unfinished" quality shocking viewers as much as it's vivid, non-naturalistic colors.

Although the Fauve works on display were condemned by many—"A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public", declared the critic Camille Mauclair

Dance, 1909

1950

Matisse : The Cut outs

• http://www.artfund.org/what-to-see/exhibitions/2014/04/17/henri-matisse-the-cut-outs