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Fauvism is derived from Les Fauves ("the wild beasts") and designates a loose grouping of artists who bridged the distance between the Post-Impressionists and the Expressionists (among whom many of the Fauvists are often included). The movement was initiated by Henri Matisse and Andre Derain under the influence of their teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Symbolist painter Gustav Moreau. Other strong influences on the Fauves were the Post-Impressionist masters Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Cezanne. The Fauves are best known for their innovative use of bright colors, 
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by Andre Derainexploding the Neo-Impressionists' use of points of pure color (Pointilism) into whole compositional planes. Artists often included in the Fauves are Raoul Dufy, Pierre Bonnard. Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, Orthon Friesz, Charles Comoin, and Georges Braque (before he became a Cubist). Non-French painters who were likely influenced by Fauvism include Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, and Alexej Von Jawlensky. Click any thumbnail to view a larger version or make a purchase.
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Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis, in the north of France. He died in 1954 at the age of 84 in Nice, France. Giving up a legal career and taking up painting while recovering from an illness, Matisse studied art at the Academie Julian starting in 1891, where William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau were among his teachers. Influenced initially by the Post-Impressionists, Matisse first adopted the Pointilist techniques of Paul Signac. After 1905, he spent increasing time in the south of France, associating with a group of painters who ended up calling themselves the Fauves. [More...]
Andre Derain was born in 1860 in Chatou, France, and died in 1954 at the age of 74. He met Henri Matisse while studying art at the Academie Camillo in Paris and shared a studio with Maurice de Vlaminck. [More...]
Raoul Dufy was born in 1877 in Le Havre, in Normandy, France. He died at the age of 75 in 1973 in the south of France. He left school at 14, but started taking evening art classes at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Le Havre, and later won a scholarship to study at the Ecole Nationale de Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he met Georges Braque who was a fellow student. Dufy was initially influenced by Impressionism and Fauvism, but later developed his own unique style. [More...]
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References & Sources
- Fauvism by Artcyclopedia.com.
- Fauvism by Wikipedia.
- Fauvism by Artchive.com.
- Fauvism by ArtLex.com.
- Henri Matisse & the Fauves.
- Neo-Fauvism.
- Fauvist Artworks at Art.com AllPosters.com.
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