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 couple of years, 1904–1908, and had three exhibitions.
Henri Matisse. Woman with a Hat, 1905.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The paintings of the Fauves were characterized by seemingly wild brush
work and strident colors, 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. Fauvism can also be seen as a mode of Expressionism.
Representatives: Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Charles Camoin, Kees van Dongen, Alice Bailly.
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