1. Derain's Turning Road and Benton's Haystack
After visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for the first time, I observed many interesting works of art representing various time periods. ... Fauve, meaning "wild beasts" in French, was a movement driven by "a desire to develop an art that had the directness of Impressionism but also had the intense color juxtapositions and their emotional capabilities (964).... Coming from very different time periods, Andre Derain and Thomas Hart Benton both incorporate their genre's style into their own expressive art. Both of these men were influential leaders of their periods a...
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