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Henri E. Matisse’s ‘Harmony in Red,’ was painted towards the end of the Fauvist movement in 1908. The artwork is oil on canvas and is 180 x 220cm in size. A relatively short movement, Fauvism began around 1898 and ended in 1908. Artists of the movement included Andrè Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Duffy, Jean Puy and of course, Henri Matisse, the founding father of Fauvism. The movement got its name from the French term Les Fauves, meaning ‘the wild beasts,’ after a critic related the phrase to the artists’ first exhibition, in 1905. The Fauvist artists wee primarily concerned with a vibrant and intense use of colour, aimed at evoking an emotional response within the viewer. The movement was revolutionary in that it inspired the use of colour as a means of expression, and illustrated the ability to apply point in abstraction. By the end of the movement, each artis