Fauvism

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Fauvism the wild beasts
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• Characteristics
• Emphasis on intense color
• Painted objects in colors much different
• from natural colors
• 3. color for color sake
• 4. Color served to transmit the artists
• intense feeling for his subject
• 5. Use of complementary colors to achieve
• an interest in light
• 6. Bold brush strokes

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7. Brushwork is quick 8. Pictures of comfort, joy
pleasure 9. No psychological themes 10. Bold,
flat patterns 11. Simple yet dramatic surface
patterns 12. Achieved energy through vigorous
line
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Artist Andre Derain George Rouault Henri
Matisse
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Henri Matisse 1869-1954
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Goldfish
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Favorite subjects human figures Influenced by
Cezanne Very popular Esp. known for sketches At
one time a law clerk Used bright
colors Developed collage Interested in African
patterns Worked on white fields


Blue Nude
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Simplified forms Bold brush strokes Flat plains
of color

The Green Stripe
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Icarus
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Lanceur de Couteaux knife thrower
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The Dance
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Study In Yellow
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Andre Derain 1880 1954 Know for
landscapes Active illustrator
ethnographer Liked patches of bright
color Asymetrical compositions Especially liked
bridges Liked orange, blue and reds Flat
design Designed costumes sets for ballet
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Charred Bridge
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London Bridge
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Georges Rouault 1871-1958 Born in Paris, son of a
carpenter Age 14 an apprentice to a stain
glass maker A devout Catholic First pieces
clowns, acrobats prostitutes Did parables
and events in the New Testament
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Broad Brush Strokes Jewellike colors Black
outline Biblical themes Melancholy Used deep
reds, greens, and blues
The Old King
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Christ Crucifixion
Two Clowns
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Cubism Influenced by African Art Found in
painting sculpture Overlapping
planes Einsteins 4th Dimension Used angles
wedges 3-D Chiefly French Spanish Collage
used Looks like a stack of cards Is
mechanomorphic mechanical forms
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Two Types 1. Analytic Cubism overlapping
interlocking geometric planes
GEORGE BRAQUE VIOLIN PALLETTE
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2. Synthetic Cubism degree of realism everyday
small objects George Braque LeJour
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George Braque 1882- 1963 career spanned 60
yrs. Developed overlapping planes Wounded in WW.
I Added sand to his paintings for
texture Usedgray, brown and green Like wall
paper patterns in work Used collage (like
Matisse) Seen him his life as a living legend
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Worked with Picasso until after war. Developed
painting technique that looked like wood grain
marble Great interest in African Art
Chateau de la Roche
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Fernand Leger 1881-1955 Experienced in trench
warfare from WW I Converted to Socialism after
war Enjoyed and painted harmony between man and
machines Used cylinders and rectangles in his
work outlined objects with heavy black lines
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Interested in tension between man machines Term
for work tubular combined human forms
machine
Three women
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Woman In The mirror
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The Red Nude
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Marcel Duchamp 1887 to 1968 Copied Cezanne
Fauvism Depicted successive movements of a
single body Most famous piece Nude Descending
A Staircase a scandal in 1913 Basic principle
art doesnt have to follow the rules Invented
Ready-mades from common objects essential idea
in art is not skill but choice
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Believed in never repeating himself stopped
painting in 1923 after a series of chess
pieces Worked at one time as a cartoonist
poet A great influence to surrealists
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Nudes Descending a staircase
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Duchamp with Ready-made Wheel
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Chocolate Grinder
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Pablo Picasso 1881-1955
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The Blue guitarist
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Le Madmoiselles of Avignon
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Guernica
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Three Muscians
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Weeping woman
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Girl in the mirror
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camel