What was the nickname given to Matisse and his contemporaries due to their intense use of color?
Colorists
Wild Beasts
Color Rebels
Bright Bunch
Answer
The intense colourism of the works Matisse painted between 1900 and 1905 brought him notoriety as one of the Fauves, French for "wild beasts". This nickname was also applied to his contemporaries who shared a similar style.
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