The Art of Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) was a French painter, who teamed up with Andre Derain to form the Fauvists, a group of artists who were often ridiculed and discredited by the public for their emphasis on color over the structure and perspective of a painting. (Matisse, Henri. La Raie Verte "The Green Line." c. 1905. Oil & tempera on canvas. Statens Musseum for Kunst, Copenhagen.)Matisse once