Art, Fauvism

Fauvism;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and to set the scene, a few photos

 

 

 

Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loosly grouped movement  in early twentieth art. These works prioritized painting technique and vivid, strong colour over the realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only three years, 1905–1907, and had three exhibitions. The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.

Besides Matisse and
Derain, the other artists in the movement included Albert Marquet, Charles Camoin, Louis Valtat, the Belgian painter Henri Evenepoel, Jean Puy,
Maurice de Vlaminck, Alfred Maurer, Henri Manguin, Raoul Dufy, Othon Friesz,

Georges Rouault, the Dutch painter Kees van Dongen, the Swiss painter Alice Baillyand Georges Braque (subsequently Picasso's partner in Cubism)
The paintings of the Fauves were characterised by seemingly wild brush work and strident colours, while their subject matter had a high degree of simplification and abstraction. Fauvism can be classified as an extreme development of Van Gogh's Post-Impressionism fused with the pointillism of Seurat and other Neo-Impressionist painters, in particular Paul Signac. Other key influences were Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin,who in 1888 had said to Paul Sérusier

“ How do you see these trees? They are yellow. So, put in yellow; this shadow, rather blue, paint it with pure ultramarine; these red leaves? Put in vermilion.  ”

Fauvism can also be seen as a mode of Expressionism.  

delete reply acousticeagle wrote on Jun 6, '09 Get a lot of bright colour with recognisable images and go mad with brushes. Yes, I like the idea. I've thought to do something like that here in my own flat. All the walls are white and so I've given some thought to changing the art I have up on the walls (the equines) and doing something bold and colourful just for a spruce. The fauvist pictures are inspirational.

delete reply brendainmad wrote on Jun 6, '09 Colours! I love all of these!

delete reply teelee123 wrote on Jun 5, '09 I enjoyed this short art history lesson very much! Thank you!

delete reply hedgewitch9 wrote on Jun 5, '09 Thank you for a wonderful reminder of these fabulous artists!

delete reply veryfrank wrote on Jun 5, '09 forgetmenot525 said Forgot to post this with it...............consider it the epilogue I am going to guess 1940's (film and scenery), UK and not French or US made. Was there a film named Music Hall? The costumes are very authentic looking, much like seen in museums and paintings. The US film 'Can Can', 1960, has almost duplicate costumes. I really like Offenbach.

edit delete reply forgetmenot525 wrote on Jun 5, '09 Forgot to post this with it...............consider it the epilogue

delete reply veryfrank wrote on Jun 5, '09 Whereas there may be individual pictures that I am not drawn to, the colors capture my attention.

delete reply bennett1 wrote on Jun 5, '09 What a wonderful visual buffet! Thank you. I find myself very drawn to some of the pictures, such as the one at the very top, and not so drawn to others. But each is unique and still shares similarities with the others.

delete reply greenwytch wrote on Jun 5, '09 wow, what a fascinating artistic journey! the song is sublime.....a wonderful combination.