- Fauvism - Wikipedia
It was the style of les Fauves (French pronunciation: [le fov], the wild beasts), a group of modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism
- Fauvism | Definition, Art, Facts | Britannica
Fauvism, style of painting that flourished in France around the turn of the 20th century Fauve artists used pure, brilliant colour aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas
- FAUVE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
In 1967, the intense impact of their colors was still vibrant, inspiring one writer for Vogue to use fauve as an adjective to describe the colors of a "striking" flowered coat—and that use can still be found today vivifying colors
- Fauvism Movement Overview | TheArtStory
The Fauves ("wild beasts") were a loosely allied group of French painters with shared interests Several of them, including Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, and Georges Rouault, had been pupils of the Symbolist artist Gustave Moreau and admired the older artist's emphasis on personal expression
- Fauvism - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Fauve painters were the first to break with Impressionism as well as with older, traditional methods of perception Their spontaneous, often subjective response to nature was expressed in bold, undisguised brushstrokes and high-keyed, vibrant colors directly from the tube
- Fauvism - The Origins, Artworks, and Artists of the Fauve Movement
As the first modern art movement of the 20th century, the Fauve movement laid the groundwork for many of the most well-known modern art movements, including Cubism and Expressionism
- Fauvism - National Gallery of Art
While short-lived (about 1904 to 1908), fauvism was the first avant-garde wave of the 20th century Saturated, unnatural colors and powerful brushstrokes made fauvist paintings radical—and widely criticized Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Maurice de Vlaminck were among the artists dubbed “fauves” (wild beasts)
- Henri Matisse and Fauvism
Fauvism was the first of the avant-garde movements that flourished in France in the early years of the twentieth century The Fauve painters were the first to break with Impressionism (leading artist: Claude Monet) as well as with older, traditional methods of perception
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