Editing Magenta (section)

===In art===
* [[Paul Gauguin]] (1848–1903) used a shade of magenta in 1890 in his portrait of Marie Lagadu, and in some of his South Seas paintings.
* [[Henri Matisse]] and the members of the [[Fauvist]] movement used magenta and other non-traditional colors to surprise viewers, and to move their emotions through the use of bold colors.
* Since the mid-1960s, water based fluorescent magenta paint has been available to paint [[psychedelic art|psychedelic]] [[black light]] [[painting]]s. (Fluorescent [[Cerise (color)|cerise]], fluorescent [[chartreuse (color)#Chartreuse yellow|chartreuse yellow]], fluorescent blue, and fluorescent green.)
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File:Bouguereau-Psyche.jpg|Magenta, along with mauve, made with the newly discovered [[aniline dyes]], became a popular fashion color in the second half of the nineteenth century. It appeared in art in this 1890 work,  ''Psyche'', by [[Bouguereau]].
File:Paul Gauguin 099.jpg|[[Paul Gauguin]], ''Portrait of Marie Lagadu'' (1890).
File:Matissetoits.gif|[[Henri Matisse]], ''Les toits de Collioure'' (1905). Henri Matisse and the other painters of the [[Fauvist]] movement were the first to make a major use of magenta to surprise and make an impact on the emotions of the viewer.
File:1967 Mantra-Rock Dance Avalon poster.jpg|In the 1960s, magenta was a popular color in [[psychedelic art]], such as this concert poster for the [[Avalon Ballroom]] in [[San Francisco]] (1967). 
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