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    Fauvism

    Fauvism, the name of which means “wild beasts.”style of painting that flourished
    in France around the turn of the 20th century. Fauve artists used pure, brilliant colour
    aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to create a sense of an explosion on
    the canvas.The Fauves painted directly from nature, as the Impressionists had before
    them, but Fauvist works were invested with a strong expressive reaction to the
    subjects portrayed. The leader of the group was Henri Matisse, who had arrived at the
    Fauve style after experimenting with the various Post-Impressionist approaches
    Matisse’s studies led him to reject traditional renderings of three-dimensional space
    and to seek instead a new picture space defined by movement of colour. He exhibited
    his famous Woman with the Hat (1905) at the 1905 exhibition. In this painting, brush
    strokes of colour—blues, greens, and reds—form an energetic, expressive view of the
    woman. The crude paint application, which left areas of raw canvas exposed, was
    appalling to viewers at the time.

    The other major Fauvists were André Derain, who had attended school with Matisse
    in 1898–99, and Maurice de Vlaminck, who was Derain’s friend. They shared
    Matisse’s interest in the expressive function of colour in painting, and they first
    exhibited together in 1905. Derain’s Fauvist paintings translate every tone of a
    landscape into pure colour, which he applied with short, forceful brushstrokes. The
    agitated swirls of intense colour in Vlaminck’s works are indebted to the expressive
    power of van Gogh.

    Henri Matisse

    Luxe, Calme, et Volupté (Luxury, Calm, and Desire), 1904


    Radical Color and Wild Beasts:
    Matisse, Derain, and the Friendship
    that Defined Fauvism

    In 1905, French painters André Derain and Henri


    Matisse spent a summer in the South of France exploring a
    new freedom and spontaneity in painting; characterized by
    vibrant color, painterly, expressive brushstrokes, and an
    irreverent approach to the idea of representation in art, they
    defined what became the essential style of Fauvism, a brief
    but influential avant-garde art movement.
    André Derain
    L'Estaque, 1905
    André Derain
    Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1906
    Musée d'Orsay, Paris
    Henri Matisse
    (Woman with a Hat), 1905
    The Dance by Henri Matisse

    Joy of Life 1905 by Henri Matisse


    Town on the Bank of a Lake, paintings by Maurice de Vlaminck

    village
    landscape paintings by Maurice de Vlaminck

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