'Red Interior: Still Life on a Blue Table' (1947) by Henri Matisse.
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Matisse was one of the founders of Fauvism and a leader of 'Les Fauves', a group of artists who enjoyed painting pictures with outrageously bold colours. The title 'Les Fauves' which meant 'wild beasts' in French was coined by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles who was amused by the exaggerated colour in their art. However, the artistic establishment of the day were offended by their paintings as they respected control and restraint in the use of colour. 'Les Fauves' believed that colour had a spiritual quality which linked directly to your emotions and they loved to use it at its highest possible pitch. The function of colour in their paintings was not to describe their subject matter, but to express the artist's feelings about it. Their ideas liberated the use of colour for future generations of artists who ultimately explored colour as an abstract subject in its own right.
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