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Instead of imitating nature, they have their own, almost abstract logic. Matisse was composing paintings, not just painting things. Color was how he conceived and structured his image. It does not simply convey what he saw—the boats, the vine growing around the balcony, the window panes—but is also decorative pattern in its own right. Construction
by colored surfaces. Search for intensity of color, subject matter being
unimportant. Reaction against the diffusion of local tone in light. Light...expressed
by a harmony of intensely colored surfaces.
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