Fauvism
By: Dominic Ross
The Movement
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The paintings of the Fauves
were made by seemingly wild
brush strokes and strident
colors, while they had a high
degree of simplification and
abstraction. Most artists say
fauvism is an extreme
development of Van Gogh’s
Post-Impressionism movement
fused with the pointillism of
Seurat. Others believe
Fauvism is also a mode of
Expressionism.
Henri Matisse’s Portrait
of Madame Matisse
Henri Matisse’s Work
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Women in a Hat
Les Toits de Collioure
Origin
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Fauvism became a style in
1900 and beyond 1910 but it
was only popular for only three
years from 1905 to 1907 in
which the movement had three
exhibitions. Henri Matisse was
a leader in the movement and
was inspired when his teacher
John Peter Russell a former
friend of Vincent Van Gogh
and a famous impressionist
painter showed him one of Van
Gogh’s Post-Impressionist
paintings and Matisse quickly
fell in love with the movement
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The Young Sailor II
By Henri Matisse
Salon D’Automne
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The artists of this movement including
Henri Matisse and Andre Derain the
leaders of the group shared their first
exhibition at the 1905 Salon d’Automne.
The group gained this name after a critic
Louis Vauxcelles describe their show of
work with the phrase Donatello au milieu
des fauves which meant among the wild
beasts, contrasting the paintings with a
Renaissance-type sculpture.
Other Paintings
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Maurice de Vlaminck’s
The River Seine at Chatou
Andre Derain’s
Charing Cross Bridge
The End
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Henri Matisse
Landscape at
Collioure, 1905