Fauvism
Fauvism began in 1905. It was a short-lived movement and included a group of artists who used deep, more intense color than the work of the Impressionists. With simplified lines the subjects were easy to decipher. Objects were painted in any colour and the perspectives exaggerated.
’Fauves’ means wild beasts in French. The finished look of the work was immaterial as the artists just painted what they visualized.
Leading the movement were Henri Matisse and Andre Derain. See Matisse’s 1908 ‘The Dessert’; and/or Derain’s ‘The Two Barges’.
Fauvism, had no concrete theories. Matisse’s aim was to use art as decoration. Seeing a work by Matisse one senses the feeling of d©cor, especially if harmonizes with the surroundings.
Rough and clumsy, intense, vivid, unnatural colour, distortion, was the emotional, driving force.
The movement was not popular and was subject to abuse. However, it gained some respect when art buyers began to show interest.
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