Fauvism

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Fauvism

• By Dominic Ross

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The Movement

• 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 Goghs
  Post-Impressionism movement fused with the
  pointillism of Seurat. Others believe Fauvism is
  also a mode of Expressionism.

• Henri Matisses Portrait
• of Madame Matisse

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Henri Matisses Work

• Women in a Hat Les Toits de Collioure

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Origin

• 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 Goghs Post-Impressionist paintings and
  Matisse quickly fell in love with the movement

• The Young Sailor II
• By Henri Matisse

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Salon DAutomne

• The artists of this movement including Henri
  Matisse and Andre Derain the leaders of the group
  shared their first exhibition at the 1905 Salon
  dAutomne. 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.

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Other Paintings

• Maurice de Vlamincks Andre
  Derains
• The River Seine at Chatou Charing
  Cross Bridge

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The End

• Henri Matisse Landscape at Collioure, 1905