Modern art movement

1. FAUVISM

2. Fauvism
Style of French painting from c. 1898 to 1906 characterized by a
violence of colours, often applied unmixed from commercially
produced tubes of paint in broad flat areas, by a spontaneity
and even roughness of execution and by a bold sense of surface
design.

3. Fauvism
It was the first of a succession of avant-garde movements in
20th-century art and was influential on near-contemporary and
later trends such as Expressionism, Orphism and the
development of abstract art.

4. Fauvism
The Fauves:
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
André Derain (1880-1954)
Maurice de Vlaminck
(1876-1958)
Matisse

5. Fauvism
"My choice of colors does not rest on
any scientific theory; it is based on
observation, on sensitivity, on felt
experience."
– Henri Matisse

6. Fauvism
Other Fauve Artists:
Georges Rouault
Henri Manguin
Louis Valtat
Kees van Dongen
Manguin
Van Dongen

7. Fauvism
Fauvism wasn't officially a movement. It had no written
guidelines or manifesto, no membership roster, and no
exclusive group exhibitions.
"Fauvism" is simply a word of periodization used in
place of: "An assortment of painters who were loosely
acquainted with one another, and experimented with
color in roughly the same way at roughly the same
time."

8. Fauvism
Gustave Moreau
1826-1898
Group’s inspirational
teacher and philosophical
leader

9. Fauvism
“Fauves. Wild beasts!”
“Donatello among the wild beasts!”
Salon d’Automne, 1905
Louis Vauxcelles
Fauvism
Cubism

10. Fauvism
Key characteristics:
COLOR –vivid, raw, pure colors
Andre Derain
Maurice de Vlaminck
oil on cardboard
1906

11. Fauvism
Key Characteristics:
SIMPLIFIED FORMS – shapes are flat and basic
Henri Matisse
La Danse
Oil on canvas
1909

12. Fauvism
Key Characteristics:
ORDINARY SUBJECT MATTER – landscapes or everyday life in a
landscape
Andre Derian
Boats at Collioure's Harbor
1905

13. Fauvism
Key Characteristics:
EXPRESSIVENESS – pouring
forth of artist’s emotions
through color and forms
Henri Matisse
Woman with a Hat
1905

14. Fauvism
Influences:
Georges Seurat
Paul Signac
Henri Matisse
Luxury, Calm and Pleasure
1904

15. Fauvism
Influences
The Post-Impressionists:
Paul Cezanne’s constructive color plane
Paul Gauguin’s Symbolism
Vincent Van Gogh’s pure bright colors

16. Fauvism
Movements, styles and artists influenced by Fauvism:
German Expressionists (Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon
Schiele, George Baselitz)
Abstract Expressionists (Pollock, Rothko, etc.)

17. Fauvism
Henri Matisse
The Dance (second version)
1910

18. Fauvism
Henri Matisse
Le Bonheur de Vivre
1905-06

19. Fauvism
Henri Matisse
Red Room (Harmony in Red)
1908

20. Fauvism
Andre Derain
Charing Cross Bridge
1906

21. fauvism
Andre Derain
View of Cagnes
oil on canvas
1910

22. Fauvism
Andre Derain
The Drying Sails
oil on canvas
1905

23. Fauvism
Maurice de Vlaminck
The River Seine at Chatou
Oil on canvas
1906

24. Fauvism
Maurice de Vlaminck
Portrait of a Woman
Oil on canvas
1905

25. Fauvism
Maurice de Vlaminck
The Table
(Still Life with Almonds)
Oil on canvas
1906-07

26. Fauvism
Georges Rouault
Christ on the Cross
aquatint etching
1936

27. Fauvism
Henri Manguin
The 14th of July at Saint Tropez
Oil on canvas
1905

28. Fauvism
Derain -- after a brief flirtation with Cubism, became a widely
popular painter in a somewhat neoclassical manner.
Matisse -- pursued the course he had pioneered, achieving a
sophisticated balance between his own emotions and the world
he painted.
*Braque -- cofounder of Cubism along with Picasso

29. Fauvism
For most of these artists, Fauvism was a transitional,
learning stage.
By 1908, a revived interest in Paul Cézanne's vision of
the order and structure of nature had led many of them
to reject the turbulent emotionalism of Fauvism in favor
of the logic of Cubism.