... the violent color of Van Gogh and the bold distortions of Gauguin, which they manipulated freely for pictorial and expressive effects" (Janson 771). Two of the Fauves, Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault, stand out. Matisse was the leader of the Fauves and the oldest member. He sought to express emotion, but not through facial expressions. Instead he used the whole arrangement of figures ... colors to achieve an emotional effect. His painting The Joy of Life is one of the best examples of what the Fauves intended to do. This painting was radically simple. Matisse left out as much as possi...

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... shown in his work La Mariee (1950). In both La Mariee and Maternity, I discovered the techniques common to the movement of Fauvism were used. The Fauvism movement was led by Henri Matisse and Andre Derain. Fauvism is shown in the distortion of the images in Chagall's paintings. The seemingly smeared brush strokes upon the canvas is also a quality of Fauvism. The painter ... art and Fauvism. Chagall used abstracted viewpoints and vivid color to portray his art. Ultimately, the direct connection between the three paintings is Fauvism. Pablo Picasso once stated, "When Matisse dies, Chagall...

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