Open Window, Collioure ☱ Matisse ☴ Art Print Paper Finish:Textured Matte The model was the artist's

The model was the artist's mistress

there is an element of loneliness as each figure seems isolated and withdrawn from the others

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and the subject's unusually direct and confrontational gaze

Open Window, Collioure ☱ Matisse ☴ Art Print Paper Finish:Textured Matte The model was the artist'sOpen Window, Collioure (1905) by Henri Matisse is a prime example of Fauvism, a style of art that he was instrumental in developing, noted for bold and bright colors used to express emotion over realism. Matisse loved painting open windows, here depicting the view from his apartment in Collioure, on the southern coast of France. It depicts a series of frames within frames: the wall contains the windowed doors, the doors frame the plants on the