How Did Henri Matisse Create Red Harmony In Red

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French artist, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a revolutionary painter who started the style Fauvism. He is famous for his diverse use of color, and some even call him the master of color. Fauvism is a modern art style that started in the early twentieth century, led by Matisse and André Derain. Contradicting colors, and vulgar brushwork are all you need to make a striking Fauvist painting, and Matisse’s oil on canvas painting, The Dessert: Harmony in Red, is seen as a Fauvist painting; some critics agreed that it’s his masterpiece. Interestingly enough, the painting was ordered to be blue, but Matisse, being the advocate for Fauvism, had a hard time with the colors and decided to go with the opposing color, which was red.
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Taking a longer look, we’ll find strikingly vibrant wallpaper, themed patterns and a woman assembling fruits on a table with the same vibrant red and floral patterns as the wallpaper on the tablecloth. The scenery through the window has a similar theme to the red and blue. Moreover, the colors in the painting are a mixer of warm and cool ones, however warm colors act dominantly over the cool ones. Additionally, the window, chair and table are geometric shapes while the floral patterns; flowers, fruits and woman are organic ones. Furthermore, the space in the artwork proposes a cluttered perspective and a flattened surface that may cause a feeling of distress. The artist adopted all orientations of lines; vertical and horizontal lines are seen within the window, chair and the little house, whereas the diagonal line is reformed throughout the painting. The painter motions varied features of unity and harmony through colors, shapes and lines.
The artwork is asymmetrical, for the woman faces a window and the wallpaper faces a tablecloth, even though they both have the same pattern. The rhythm is repeated with the curved display in the wallpaper, tablecloth and trees, and the spots of color in the fruits on the tables and flowers in the landscape. Instead of using tactile texture, Matisse used visual texture through the floral patterns. Matisse also created

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