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The Fauve, MoMA, 2017
The artwork shown, uses a bold color palette, which is known for being Fauvism. During 1905, artists such as Henri Matisse, André Derain, and Maurice de Vlaminck created Fauvist work. The word Fauve, “made particular reference to these artists’ brilliant, arbitrary color, more intense than the “scientific” color of the Neo-Impressionists and the non-descriptive color of Gauguin and Van
Gogh” (92). The exhibition would bring out the paintings because of the use of such a bold color palette. One of Henri Matisse’s pieces; Luxe, calme et volupté (Luxury, Calm, and Pleasure), was named after a title from, “Baudelaire’s poem L’Invitation au voyage” (92). Matisse from the looks of this painting uses the brush stroke technique, pointillism. This piece also has a remarkable use
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The use of the reds, blues, and the flesh tone color just mend well together. In Matisse’s second piece, Le Bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life), by looking at it, it looks like the people painted, are truly enjoying life.
André Derain, the artist who painted both; Turning Road, L’Estaque, and London
Bridge in the year 1906. The painting, London Bridge was actually “painted during a trip commissioned by the dealer Ambroise Vollard” (99). Vollard wanted Derain’s paintings to capture the special atmosphere of London. There are some comparisons between Derain and Matisse’s work that look similar. The use of bright and color in their work, the same type of brush stroke. In
Derain’s piece, London Bridge, the use of the different colors of the water makes it looks as if the sun is reflecting off of it; along with the use of the short and long strokes.
Lastly, Maurice de Vlaminck, the artist who painted the Portrait of Derain in 1906, which was done on cardboard and not on canvas. Vlaminck, “presents many parallels with Derain’s,

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