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SFMOMA’s exhibition Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal stages the 1905 debut of Matisse’s Femme au chapeau at the Salon d’Automne in Paris. At the time, the painting shocked audiences with its radical use of non-naturalistic colors and wildly expressive brushwork.

Matisse’s departure from convention started a new movement called Fauvism — the work of “wild beasts." Matisse had an expansive imagination, inviting viewers into boldly rendered subjects unbound by the limits of reality.

Today, that same spirit of boundary-breaking is embraced through a partnership between SFMOMA and Google Arts & Culture.…