FAUVISM

INTRODUCTION
Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the
wild beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century
Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly
qualities and strong color over the
representational or realistic values retained by
Impressionism.
While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and
continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted
only a few years, 19041908, and had three
exhibitions.
The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse
and Andr Derain.

Besides Matisse and

Derain, other artists
included:
Albert Marquet,
Charles Camoin,
Louis Valtat
The Belgian painter Henri
Evenepoel
Maurice Marinot
Maurice de Vlaminck
Georges Braque (subsequently

The paintings of the

Fauves were
characterized by:
seemingly wild brush work
strident colors, while their subject matter
had a high degree of simplification and
abstraction.
Fauvism can be classified as an extreme
development of Van Gogh's PostImpressionism fused with the pointillism
of Seurat and other Neo-Impressionist
painters, in particular Paul Signac.

MAURICE DE VLAMINCK
Vlaminck lived in or near Chatou (the
inspiration for his paintinghouses at
Chatou), painting and exhibiting
alongside Derain, Matisse, and other
Fauvist painters.
At this time his exuberant paint
application and vibrant use of colour
displayed the influence of
Vincent van Gogh.
He ignored the details, with the
landscape becoming a mere excuse
to express mood through violent
colour and brushwork.An example
isSous bois, painted in 1904.
His paintingsLe Pont de Chatou(The
Chatou Bridge),Les Ramasseurs de
pommes de terre(The Potato
Pickers),La Seine a Chatou(The
River Seine at Chatou) andLe

 Maurice de Vlaminck, 1905-06, Barges on the Seine

(Bateaux sur la Seine), oil on canvas, Pushkin Museum,
Moscow

 Maurice de Vlaminck, The River Seine at Chatou, 1906,

Metropolitan Museum of Art

L'homme a la

Henri Matisse
Henri-mile-Benot
Matisse (French: [ i emil
bnw matis]; 31 December
1869 3 November 1954) was a
French artist, known for both
his use of colour and his fluid
and original draughtsmanship.
He was a draughtsman,
printmaker, and sculptor, but is
known primarily as a painter.

Characteristics of Matisses work:

Matisse used pure colors and the white of exposed canvas to
create a light-filled atmosphere in his Fauve paintings.
Matisse used contrasting areas of pure, unmodulated color.
His use of color and pattern is often deliberately disorientating and
unsettling.
Matisse was heavily influenced by art from other cultures. Having
seen several exhibitions of Asian art, and having traveled to North
Africa, he incorporated some of the decorative qualities of Islamic
art, the angularity of African sculpture, and the flatness of Japanese
prints into his own style.
The human figure was central to Matisse's work both in sculpture
and painting.
Its importance for his Fauvist work reflects his feeling that the
subject had been neglected in Impressionism, and it continued to be
important to him.
At times he fragmented the figure harshly, at other times he treated
it almost as a curvilinear, decorative element.

Henri Matisse,
Les toits de
Collioure, 1905,
oil on canvas,
The Hermitage,
St. Petersburg,
Russia

Henri Matisse. Woman with a

Hat, 1905. San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art.

Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame

Matisse (The Green Stripe), 1906,
Statens Museum for Kunst,
Copenhagen, Denmark

Henri Matisse, Open Window,

Collioure, 1905, National Gallery of
Art, Washington, DC.

The Dance (first version), 1909,The Museum of Modern Art, New

York City

Andr Derain
Andr Derain (French: [d] ; 10 June
1880 8 September 1954) was a French
artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder
of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.
Derain and Matisse worked together
through the summer of 1905 in the
Mediterraneanvillage of Collioure and
later that year displayed their highly
innovative paintings at theSalon
d'Automne
The vivid, unnatural colors led the critic
Louis Vauxcelles to derisively dub their
works as les Fauves, or "the wild beasts",
marking the start of the Fauvist
movement.

Characteristics of Derains work:

The Fauves emphasized vivid colors
hearty brushstrokes and simplified forms.
The subject matter of the Fauve painters is generally
lighthearted.
They favored seascapes, the French countryside,
portraits, nudes, and domestic interiors.
The Fauve palette is what set them apart.
Fauvists used paint directly from the tube and never
mixed their colors.
They favored deep reds, oranges, and bright greens.
The Fauve colors seemed intense and tasteless, even
offensive to art critics of the time.

Andr Derain, 1905, Le schage des voiles (The

Drying Sails), 1905, Pushkin Museum, Moscow

 Andr Derain, Self-portrait in the Studio, 1903,

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

Andr Derain, 1906, Charing Cross Bridge,

London, National Gallery of Art,Washington
, D.C.

Andr Derain, c.1908, Baigneuses(Esquisse), oil on

canvas, 38 x 46 cm,Muse
d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Georges Braque, 1906, L'Olivier prs de

Jean
Metzinger,
1907,
PaysageAtcolor aux oiseaux aquatique, oil on
l'Estaque
(The
Olive tree near
l'Estaque).
least four
canvas,
versions
Muse
of thisdArt
sceneModerne
were painted
de la Ville de Paris
by Braque, one of which was stolen from the
Muse d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
during the month of May, 2010.

Othon Friesz,
1907, Paysag
e La Ciotat,
oil on canvas,


HenriManguin,1906,Baigneuse(Woman Bather),
oiloncanvas,PushkinMuseum,Moscow

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