This summary of Fauvism explores the bold colors and simplified forms used by artists like Matisse and Derain. With an emphasis on painterly expression over realism, this guide helps students grasp the movement’s impact on modern art, aligned with the Visual Arts curriculum
ENI11/19M
Fauvism /fʊvism/ is the style of les
seemingly
Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a subject ma
group of early 20th-century modern abstractio
iiiji
artists whose works emphasized developm
painterly qualities and strong color over with the p
the representational or realistic values Paul Cézan
retained by Impressionism. areas of sa
HENRI MATISSE CHAR
• A radi
The Red Studio :
color from
dismantlesIllusionary space
* reserve line
Studio functions
used to create forms
as a self-portrat
giving new
• Creati
bright saturated red pushes Forward
~
the canvas
elements in composition and flattens the
image • Showi
> no sense of
light to create Illusion and
space the painter
scewed line
Intentionally
>
perspective theories of
creates Imbalance and contrasts traditional
Western art .
represente
• Bold b
tube instea
Bonneur de
VivreJoy of life) ANDRÉ DERAIN
similar to Cezannes
Large Bathers' Br
? exaggerated use of curvilinear line on the Go
trees +
figures >
unusual a
↑ colour responsive only to emotion
> strong lin
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