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The leader of the "Fauves" was Matisse, who had arrived at the ''Fauve'' style after earlier experimenting with the various Post-Impressionist styles of Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Cézanne, and the Neo-Impressionism of Seurat, Cross, and Signac. These influences inspired him to reject traditional three-dimensional space and seek instead a new picture space defined by the movement of color planes. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm] ''Fauvism'', one of the movements which appeared prior to [[Cubism]], began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910.
The leader of the "Fauves" was Matisse, who had arrived at the ''Fauve'' style after earlier experimenting with the various Post-Impressionist styles of Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Cézanne, and the Neo-Impressionism of Seurat, Cross, and Signac. These influences inspired him to reject traditional three-dimensional space and seek instead a new picture space defined by the movement of color planes. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm] ''Fauvism'', one of the movements which appeared prior to [[Cubism]], began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910.
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''Matisse was composing paintings, not just painting things. Color was how he conceived and structured his image.'' [http://www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/fauve/window_2.shtm The National Gallery of Art.]
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Henri Matisse wrote ''Notes d´un peintre'' in 1908.
Henri Matisse wrote ''Notes d´un peintre'' in 1908.
[[File:Henri Matisse The Window 1916.jpg|thumb|left|280px|The Window, 1916.]]
[[File:Henri Matisse The Window 1916.jpg|thumb|left|280px|The Window, 1916.]]