in light and dark and the shadow. Colour was to be used in its purest form.

space was constructed and solved by the careful

distribution of tones. Matisse refused to accept the traditional rules of perspective.

He did not wish to "hollow out" the surface. Instead he used an arrangement of tones

behind his coloured figures which , in relatioship to each other and to the surfaces

they covered , created an impression of space, a space filled with light which did

not conceal the flat 2 dimensional character of the canvas.

Matisse felt that he could best convey his expression

of a serene , detached world of forms , lines and colours best through a process of

Composition - expression and decoration -

Matisse wrote, "The whole arrangement of

my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figure or objects, the empty

empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part. Composition

is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements at t

They tried to escape the restraints of the environment , by going back to the

important than any attempts at objective representation. The Fauves freed colour

definable and most transient of all modern movements. Fauvism lasted from about

became charges of dynamite, they were expected to discharge light. The great

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