Fauvism

There are many types of art that have developed over years and remain very popular, yet there are also those that eventually just disappear. Fauvism is a style of art that isn’t as well-known because it didn’t last longer than a few years. Fauvism was an interesting style of art because it consisted of various individual styles that were indiscreetly related to one another (Janson 771). In 1905 is when the artists group got their name fauves, which was from a critic that had seen them at a large exhibition of Cezanne (Getlein 504). Fauves means the “wild beast,” which obviously says that they presented bright, new work that had never seen before.

Artist, such as Henry Matisse and Andre Derain, began creating this style of art from their own ideas and joined them as one to come up with unique and colorful pieces of art that are still admired by many today. They expressed their work with “emotionally explosive” color and distinctive brush strokes that helped to identify their pieces from other classical styles. Each artist tried to keep their own ideas going and keep each painting a little bit more distinctive from the others. “Their work represents an odd time in modern art history. Most of the artists were friends- or

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They took ideas from those that inspired them; created art pieces that was meaningful to them and then joined all of their ideas together to create a new style of art called fauvism. An artist that was well-known of his time was Wassily Kandinsky, which was a Russian who wasn’t apart of fauvism. Each fauves artist had a different idea in what they were painting about, but they all had the same goal to take a basic picture, such as landscape, and transform it into something totally different that had meaning. He had developed his own group called Der Blaue Reiter, where he was the leader. Also, through their new development of fauvism, he used bright, vibrant colors to make each shape, line, and object stand out differently and with meaning. ” Kandinsky did not paint his art with like the fauves, but instead tried to use the same perspective and outlook and some points as they did to create and move on to a new and different outlook. ”

Smithsonian Oct. There are many works that he created that show and express his strong ability to create outstanding art. According to Janson, “It was the liberating influence of the Fauves that permitted Kandinsky to put this approach into practice. In the View of Collioure, Derain is contributing it to Van Gogh through using “whirlwinds of short brush strokes,” yet Van Gogh would have never use the other techniques that he was using, for he would have felt that they were incomplete (Getlein 504).

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