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Fauvism

Discuss the themes and techniques of fauvism. Support your arguments with reference to specific examples.

Between 1904-7, Henri Matisse, Andre Derain and Maurice Vlaminck evolved a style of painting that earned them the name Les Fauves. The Fauve movement was given it’s name when the art critic Louis Vauxcelles was reviewing the Gils Blas at the Salon d’Automne exhibition in 1905. He saw a classical sculpture in the centre of an exhibition room filled with fauve paintings by artists such as Derain, Vlaminck and Matisse. The bright arbitrary colours and distorted lines of the Fauvists paintings looked at the time like art by savages. He referred to these paintings as ‘wild beast’ in comparison to the classical sculpture. As a result of the French meaning for wild beast being ‘fauves’ the style was called fauvism. Although there was no common program such as the Impressionist Société anonyme des peintres, sculpteur et graveur, the Fauves were all loosely joined by...

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