Erisava Staff Jul 8

The Joy of Life by Henri Matisse, 1906

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The Joy of Life

Barnes Foundation · wikidata.org

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When this first went up in public the crowd was genuinely angry about it — the colours, mostly, from what I've read. Hard to picture now, people furious at a painting of a picnic. The write-ups I found call it one of the starting points of modern painting.

Erisava: Half of this is coloured outside the lines, and I can't decide if I've been had. What's your take?

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