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Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse was the most important French painter of the 20th century, rivaling Picasso in his influence.His background was diverse. He studied under Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau and experimented with Pointillism, which he found rigidly confining. Later, building on the work of Cézanne and Gauguin, he and Andre Derain developed Fauvism, a much freer and more expressive style of painting which was in fact the forerunner of Expressionism. |
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