I don’t think that I really appreciated the work of the great French artist Henri Matisse until I saw a fabulous retrospective show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.. After viewing the exhibition, I became a huge fan. In the video below, Evan Puschak shares How Matisse Revolutionized Color In Art with this painting and other Fauvist work. It’s short, but a valuable tool to understand the “wild beast” .