Fauvism

because the objects in the image are painted in Derain’s perspective and are not naturalistic in nature. Although some of the figures are abstract, they are all representational and are recognizable. The dominant style used in this painting is that of Fauvism. As seen in many of his other works, Derain painted the trees a natural green color and painted the rest of the objects in colors that were unrealistic. In this painting, there are several notable…

solid, brush strokes had become shorter, smaller, not as precise and thicker in texture, less important was the subject matter, more secondary, it was more about how they felt or perceived their ideas. Different movements at that time also included Fauvism where artists like Henri Matisse (1869-1954) felt colour was much more important and extreme, using brighter and bolder colours, more expressive, they were pushing the boundaries, evolving paintings as they progressed. Henri Matisse…

figure in Bonheur de Vivre painting, which shows he was informed by Ingres’s odalisques, and referencing Titian in Titian’s Bacchanal of the Andrians painting. Although Henri Matisse was interested in myth it would not change his style as an artist. Fauvism was based around a radical approach which is said to incorporate purely expressive,…

lines, and shapes. It was created by the French painter Georges Braque and the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso. Cubism comes from the word "cubes" that was given by Vauxcelles after he had seen the landscapes of Braque. Cubism was really popular after Fauvism and before Bauhaus(see timeline) One of the creatures of cubism was Pablo Picasso. Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a man born on the 25th of October 1881 in Málaga. He was the oldest one and had two sisters Lola and Conchita. At an age of…

each had their own unique style. Who was Matisse? Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse lived from 1869 to 1954, he was a french citizen. He started early in his career painting still life paining, however when Fauvism became popular around 1900 he switched styles and entered in to the world of Fauvism himself. Much of his most popular works and masterpieces are from this period in his life. "Around…

He presented these two paintings in the 1905 Salon d’Automne exhibition in Paris. Art critics soon gave Matisse’s distorted paintings “fauves” or “wild beasts.” His style of art was soon known as Fauvism. Matisse continued with this style of sinuous lines and bright vivid colors to create these canvas and landscape-like paintings. He used a lot of nude women for inspiration as well. Later on within the first decade of the century Matisse began to…

(Getlein 473), favoring emotion, induvial experiences, intuition, and imagination. Realism was romanticism’s polar opposite, instead favoring the day to day lives and experiences of ordinary people. Impressionism took to nature for inspiration, and fauvism which is a small part of expressionism, “describes any style where the artist’s subjective feelings take precedence over objective observation” (Getlein 484). Cubism concentrated on forms, while surrealism focused on the irrational and…

6. 1906, Brancusi, Constantin, Sleeping Muse, Romanian, Modernist Sculpture. TXT- This was to show the obsession with himself and had different forms of the head sculpture in marble, bronze, and plaster with each a special distinction. The head is similar to an egg from one of his works of art the Beginning of the World. Page 106 CLS- The head seems to be drifting away in sleep, conscious is dissolving away and have African Mask influences to form sculpture. He reduces form by emphasizing the…

portrayed the contemporary world with an unparalleled passion, painting with vivid colors and violent effects of light. Thought of as “one of the best representatives of the Neo-Impressionist movement”, Luce’s works became powerfully colorful prefiguring Fauvism. In his later years, while living in Rolleboise in the Department of the Yvelines, Luce found peace and calm and returned to painting more tranquil…

According to Kandinsky’s book Concerning the Spiritual in Art written in 1912, “music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which this spiritual revolution makes itself felt.” (Kandinsky, part 1, Section 3) Kandinsky correlates specific colors with definite emotions, such as blue, a heavenly color, while black is the color of grief that is hardly human (Fineberg, 94). Kandinsky links color and music in his book by saying, “Generally speaking, color is a power which directly…