In the last part of his series, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts tutor AL GURY looks
at the colourful lessons we can learn from Henri Matisse and the Fauvist painters- Expression
COLOUR THEORYAl Gury, River Landscape, oil
on panel, 121.9x137.2cm
My focus here was a
Fauvist-style interpretation
of the colours in nature.
The trees had a cool quality,
so I interpreted them as
blue, while the warm tones
of the earth became reds.