Fauvism (Early 20th Century)
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Fauvism
The first avant-garde 20th-century art movement, Fauvism represented a break with the artistic traditions of the past. The movement's emphasis on formal values and expressive use of color, line, and brushwork helped liberate painting from the representational expectations that had dominated Western art since the Renaissance. Although the style began before 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement itself lasted only three years between c.1905-1908 and exhibited three shows.
The group was started by the painters
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Fauvism
The first avant-garde 20th-century art movement, Fauvism represented a break with the artistic traditions of the past. The movement's emphasis on formal values and expressive use of color, line, and brushwork helped liberate painting from the representational expectations that had dominated Western art since the Renaissance. Although the style began before 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement itself lasted only three years between c.1905-1908 and exhibited three shows.
The group was started by the painters Henri Matisse and Andre Derain, pupils of the Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. Other exponents of the movement and style include: Georges Rouault, Albert Marquet, Louis Valtat, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees van Dongen, Raoul Dufy and later Cubist painter, Georges Braque. Referred to as Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts) the Fauvist gained their name at the Salon D’Automne in 1905 after critic Louis Vauxcelles described their show of work with the phrase "Donatello au milieu des fauves!" ("Donatello among the wild beasts").
Fauvist paintings are marked by wild brushstrokes; expressive brushwork; flat composition and a bold sense of surface design. Strident, saturated and brilliant colors are essential elements of the aesthetic and used for expressional and emotional effects and to create light and space. Subject matter is typically highly simplified and highly abstracted.
Fauvism was influential on near-contemporary styles and a succession of avant-garde movements in twentieth century art including Expressionism, Orphism, Abstract Art, and in particular on the German Expressionist groups Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter.
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