Like many twentieth-century artists, the Fauves broke new ground. How did Fauvist Henri Matisse ignore accepted conventions of traditional art in The Red Room?

Matisse used greatly simplified shapes to create a sense of depth. Matisse used lines and colors that express the injustices of industrialized society. Matisse used intense, expressive colors that are not realistic. Matisse used the passage technique, where one shape merges with another.