# @sfmoma on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcT0yjxByY1
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-21T17:03:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** SFMOMA (@sfmoma) — https://gondola.cc/sfmoma

## Caption

If Henri Matisse had a Starter Pack here are the must-haves. (What would you add?)

🎨 Paint & paintbrushes of course! In the early 1900s, Matisse used unconventional color choices that help define the Fauvist movement, prioritizing emotional expressiveness over naturalistic representation.

🖼️ A photo of Amélie Matisse. Matisse’s wife, muse, and frequent subject, including in “Femme au chapeau” (Woman with a Hat), the painting that helped put Fauvism on the map.

📒 Canvas & sketchbooks. Matisse constantly drew and painted, using sketchbooks to explore ideas that would later find their way onto canvas.

🌊 Mediterranean sunlight. Matisse was captivated by the intense light and color of the Mediterranean, which inspired his increasingly vibrant approach to color.

👒 A career-making hat. “Femme au chapeau” caused an uproar at the 1905 Salon d’Automne that propelled Matisse, who was still a struggling artist at the time, to success.

👓 Matisse’s glasses. For seeing the world differently. 

Discover the essentials of Matisse’s artistic revolution. Final weeks to see “Matisse: A Modern Scandal.”

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Carl Van Vechten, Portrait of Henri Matisse, 1933. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-54231]
#SFMOMA #ArtMuseumStarterPack #Matisse #SanFrancisco

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