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Fauvism

 

            Fauvism (which is French for "wild beast") is a term that art critics hurled at the painters whose art they neither liked nor understood when they first viewed it in art galleries. It was a short-lived art movement (1905-1908) that was adopted by a group of French painters: Henri Matisse, George Roualt, Claude Derain, Maurice de Vlamink, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz, Albert Marquet, and Kees van Dongen (a Dutch painter living in Paris).
             The Fauves' influence was international and is considered as having been crucial to Twentieth Century art. It was characterized by a bold distortion of forms and exciting color, which was what we call an Expressionist style. Only Matisse continued to experiment with it after 1908; the other painters launched into their own unique visions, such as Cubism, the movement immediately following Fauvism. The Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movement in the latter part of the Nineteenth Century preceded it.
            


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1. Fauvism

PRINCIPLES OF FAUVISM Uniformity of Light - All naturalistic representations were avoided, e.g. modelling in light and dark and the shadow. Colour was to be used in its purest form. Space ... to set up retinal vibrations (Seurat) , not to accentuate a romantic or mystical subject (van Gogh and Gauguin) but to build up new pictorial values apart from these . Fauvism sought to achieve reality more valid than that of physical reality. A reality that could be built up by the use of pure unbroken colour. They tried to create those 'emotional ... In Germany there seemed to be less emphasis on for...

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2. Derain's Turning Road and Benton's Haystack

... painter Benton representing the American Scene style as a Regionalist. Andre Derain became an accomplice to the well known Henri Matisse who founded the expression of Fauvism in 1905. Fauve, meaning "wild beasts" in French, was a movement driven by "a desire to develop an art that ... (966)" not only in The Turning Road but also in his work The Dance, which perfectly supports the audacious style of Derain's Fauvism. Although this movement did not last very long, the paintings created in this period are vivid and memorable. When the 1930's emerged, the ... the work is "expressive of the ...

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3. Maternity (Pregnant Woman) by Marc Chagall - 1913

... their artistic ideas within the same time period. Vitebsk is also the birthplace of Marc Chagall, the creator of the painting Maternity and innovator of Fauvism. Vitebsk at the time period was a town located in the Russian Empire. The town was located within the limits of the Pale of ... 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...

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4. Evaluation

... which is considered art by some and not by others. Just like these pieces of art are quite controversial in our time, so was Fauvism in the 1900's. It was more abstract and primitive than anything ever seem, and many of the paintings seemed like a child had drawn them. But ... what makes Fauvism truly art is the ability of the Fauvusts to capture emothion througjh their mastery of color. National Standard: IIa. Content Standard: Understanding the ... visual arts in relation to history and cultures I feel I have reached the standard in this project because we had to base our painting on ...

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5. Changing Attitudes Towards Colour

... and gaily coloured geometric debris. His furniture, textile designs and accessories and there nature as three dimensional forms affected the look of graphics in Milan, Barcelona, L.A, San Francisco and Tokyo. Fauvism Fauvism was a short lived art group that only lasted from 1905-1907. The key people from this group were Henri Matisse, Andre Derain and Maurice de Vlamick. When the term ... Fauvism is translated it means "Wild beasts". The Fauvists took the colour theories of the Impressionists to an extreme. It was influenced by African art. Other influences were Paul Gauguin and ... Vi...

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6. Freedom of Expressionism

... . His training in stained glass is apparent in works such as The Old King. In this painting Rouault used heavy lines and glowing colors that are reminiscent of stained glass. Fauvism was basically a collection of many different styles. The only link between the artists of this movement is a common sense of freedom and experimentation. They eventually began to lose their inspiration ... affected by the challenges raised by cubism. The Fauves became increasingly individualistic and began to leave the movement by 1908. The main importance of fauvism was their influence on other artists, mos...

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7. Extended Response: Henri Matisse Harmony in Red'

... painted towards the end of the Fauvist movement in 1908. The artwork is oil on canvas and is 180 x 220cm in size. A relatively short movement, Fauvism began around 1898 and ended in 1908. Artists of the movement included Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Duffy, Jean Puy and of course, Henri Matisse ... , the founding father of Fauvism. The movement got its name from the French term Les Fauves, meaning the wild beasts, after a critic related the phrase to the artists' first ... painting appeared to have been, first and foremost, an expression of emotion and feeling through the use...

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8. Art

... many different sublets of artistic form. These sublets of artistic form include: Period of Time Type of sublet of Artistic Form 1880 - 1920 Post-Impressionism 1890 - 1920 Expressionism 1903 - 1907 Fauvism 1905 - 1939 Cubism 1916 - 1922 Dada 1920 - 1940 Bauhaus 1920 - 1940 Harlem Renaissance 1924 - 1930 Surrealism Post-Impression: During this period of modernism, the work of the artists revealed a freely ... and in finding new ways of expressing the color they used. Expressionism: This period was all about the depiction of emotions and the types of responses those same emotions evoked. F...

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9. Art Isms

... of perspective, the traditional system for portraying depth in a picture, and is so fragmented that it is difficult to read clearly. Fauvism can be seen as a branch of Cubism in its extreme outlook on life. Henri Matisses" Red Room defines Fauvism. Matisses" manner of depiction of middle class domesticity was considered highly revolutionary, especially in the way he assigned intense colors to ... ...

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