Woman with the Hat by Henry Matisse; 1905. Oil on canvas. Located in the San Francisco Museum of Art in San Francisco.
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- Expressionism. Words can hardly describe the movement that was known as expressionism. The early 1900s saw a completely different take on art and how life should be portrayed through art. A brief period within the Expressionist movement became known as Fauvism. Fauves shocked the art world when they unveiled their techniques. Fauvism was based on new intensifying color with startling contrasts of vermilion and emerald green and of cerulean blue and orange. All these colors were held together by large sweeping brush strokes and stark patterns. Fauves completely demonstrated color's structural, expressive, and aesthetic capabilities.
- Woman in the Hat is clearly Fauvism. Patches and splotches of color, many times contrasting with each other, were formed to create a likeness of Henry Matisse's wife Amelie. Color, and color alone was what created the emotion and light in the painting.
- Woman in the Hat is one of the few expressionist pieces that I like. For some reason I took a liking to fauvism while I completely rejected most other forms of expressionist art. Matisse's use of color, for me, does portray emotion. Color used in this manner is not only very striking, but also greatly emotional.
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