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Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only a few years, 1904–1908, and had three exhibitions. The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauvism

Henri Matisse was born December 31, 1869, in Le Cateau in northern France. Over a six-decade career he worked in all media, from painting to sculpture to printmaking. Although his subjects were traditional—nudes, figures in landscapes, portraits, interior views—his revolutionary use of brilliant color and exaggerated form to express emotion made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

I'm sure we can all agree on his brilliant use of color!

Yes!
Love this movement.
Esp Matisse use of it.
Have to explore others works .

It’s cool you brought this up again Edward. I love this movement, too. I see it’s been 6 years since we discussed it. Let’s do it again!

I love their use of colors and lines and the way it all comes together.And the flatness of it.
I am liking Derain's use of color too.Just getting to know his works.

Yes, color!
And I like the movement. Not movement as in ‘Fauvism’ but the way the lines and curves and whatever move. And the colors dance, the figures have life! It’s not staunch, it seems to come alive to my eyes. And I can look at one painting many times and never get sick of it.

Yes...I love how they use color too.
I love the way they simplify things into shapes and blocks of color. And the brushstrokes.
I love impasto.
It just appeals to me.

You know, now that you have again opened this subject, you’ve got me Googling Fauve artists to more acquaint myself. I hadn’t realized that Georges Braque was Fauvist but of course! I really like the play if his dimensional works sort of on my psyche, if that makes sense. It seems more cubist, though. That’s what I thought he was until he came up in the list of Fauve artists.
Does anyone have any comments regarding his work? Maybe there’s something I’m missing.

When you first mentioned colors in these paintings, I initially thought of Franz Marc but looked him up and wrong movement.
Oh, on a little tangent here, his colors are sure amazing, too!

Just thinking... do we have a thread of Abstract Expressionism? That’s.
Another movement I really like and can appreciate.... hmmm

I just want to say that I have quite an old phone that limits a lot of what I can do here. I really miss my PC these days. I hope to get it back shortly. Sorry everyone!

Fauvism - Matisse - xcllnt topic.

Matisse – the first time I saw https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/p...

it was the colors that grabbed my attention first, the second was the use of space – flat and yet 3D