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Le bonheur de vivre
Le bonheur de vivre ("The Joy of Life") is a painting by Henri Matisse. Along with Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", "Le bonheur de vivre" is regarded as one of the pillars of early modernism. The monumental canvas was first exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1906, where its cadmium colors and spatial distortions caused a public expression of protest and outrage.
Description.
In the central background of the piece is a group of figures that is similar
time all the Fauves would exhibit together. The centerpiece of the exhibition was Matisse's monumental "Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life)". The triangular composition is closely related to Cézanne's Bathers; a series that would soon become a source of inspiration for Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Critics were horrified by the flatness, bright colors, eclectic style and mixed technique of "Le Bonheur de Vivre".
Both Robert Delaunay and Jean Metzinger between 1905 and 1907 painted in a Divisionist style with large squares