Matisse and the Fauves

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• Matisse and the Fauves
• (Wild Beasts)

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• Henri Matisse

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• The end of the 19th century saw the decline of
  the influence of the Academy and the Salon
  exhibitions. The 20th century gave birth to a
  series of new art movements in Europe.
• The first of these was led by Matisse, in Paris.
  This group exhibited together in 1905, showing
  works so brightly colored, so simple in design,
  and so loose in brushwork that one critic
  labelled the artists Fauves, or Wild Beasts.

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• They built on the work of the Post
  Impressionists they were even more daring in
  their colour than Van Gogh, and bolder than
  Gauguin in their use of flat shapes and lively
  line patterns.
• Matisse discovered art as a child when he was
  given paints to pass the time after an attack of
  appendicitis. He said, I felt transported into
  a paradise in which I felt gloriously free.

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Derains Portrait of Matisse
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• Matisse was not interested in recreating the
  shapes or colours found in nature. He was mainly
  interested in organizing the design qualities of
  an image, using shape and colour and texture to
  create images that were simply pleasing to the
  eye.

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Matisse The Red Room
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• In The Red Room, we see a flat, decorative
  quality rather than any attempt to create the
  illusion of three dimensionality or realism.

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• Madame Matisse
• in a Red Scarf
• Here again we see
• Matisse simplifying
• and flattening
• shapes, and using
• decorative pattern.

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Matisse Odalisque Wearing Red Trousers
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• Matisse travelled to northern Africa, and spent
  time in Morocco.
• The Muslim prohibition against the portrayal of
  humans or animals led, over many centuries, to
  the development of intricate decorative patterns
  in Muslim art.
• The influence of North African Muslim culture,
  with its love of pattern, is evident in Matisses
  odalisque paintings.

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Odalisque in Red Trousers
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• Matisse
• The Purple Robe

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• Matisse
• Goldfish

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• Matisse Icarus
• In the last years of his life, Matisse spent most
  of his time creating paper cut outs, endlessly
  rearranging them, seeking the perfection of
  composition that would give viewers pure pleasure.

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His economy is like that of a Haiku poet
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• The Knife Thrower. 1947
• This is a famous cut out by Matisse. He uses
  minimal information to vividly portray the
  energy of a knife thrower and the impassivity of
  his female assistant. What effect is created by
  the fact that the female figure touches the top
  and bottom of the format?
• .

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• Andre Derain
• 1880 - 1954

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• Derain was born in 1880 just outside Paris. In
  1898, while studying to be an engineer at the
  Académie Camillo, he attended painting classes
  under Eugene Carriere and there met Matisse.
  Matisse persuaded Derain's parents to allow him
  to abandon his engineering career and devote
  himself solely to painting.

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• Derain and Matisse worked together through the
  summer of 1905 in the Mediterranean village of
  Collioure and later that year displayed their
  highly innovative paintings at the Salon
  dAutomne. The vivid, unnatural colors led the
  critic Louis Vauxcelles to derisively dub their
  works as Les Fauves or "the wild beasts", marking
  the start of the Fauve movement.

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• In March 1906, the noted art dealer Ambroise
  Vollard sent Derain to London to compose a series
  of paintings with the city as subject.
• In 30 paintings, Derain put forth a portrait of
  London that was radically different from anything
  done by previous painters of the city such as
  Monet.
• With bold colors and compositions, Derain painted
  multiple pictures of the Thames and Tower Bridge.
  These London paintings remain among his most
  popular work and sell for as much as 6 million.
  (Wikipedia).

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Andre Derain - Trees at LEstaque
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• Andre Derain Bridge at Riou

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Derain- Street in London
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Derain London Bridge - 1906
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Derain Turning Road
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• Raoul Dufy
• 1877 - 1953

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• Raoul Dufy was born in Le Havre, in Normandy
  (northern coast of France).
• He studied art at Le Havre's École d'Art
  (municipal art school).
• During this period, Dufy painted mostly Norman
  landscapes in watercolors.

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• In 1900, Dufy won a scholarship to the Ecole
  Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris
  where he concentrated on improving his drawing
  skills.
• The Impressionist landscape painters, such as
  Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, influenced
  Dufy profoundly. His first exhibition took place
  in 1901.
• Introduced to Berthe Weill in 1902, Dufy showed
  his work in her gallery in Paris. Then he
  exhibited again in 1903 at the Salon des
  Independents.
• Henri Matisses Luxe, Calme et Volupte, which
  Dufy saw at the Salon des Indépendants in 1905,
  was a revelation to the young artist, and it
  directed his interests towards Fauvism.

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Matisse Luxe, calme, et volupte (beauty, calm
and pleasure)
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• It was not until 1920, after he had flirted
  briefly with cubism, that Dufy developed his own
  distinctive approach. It involved skeletal
  structures, arranged with foreshortened
  perspective, and the use of thin washes of color
  applied quickly, in a manner that came to be
  known as stenographic.
• Dufy's cheerful oils and watercolors depict
  events of the time period, including yachting
  scenes, sparkling views of the French Riviera,
  chic parties, and musical events. His pictures
  typically have an optimistic, fashionably
  decorative, and illustrative nature.

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Raoul Dufy The Bay of Angels
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Raoul Dufy Interior with Open Window
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Dufy Nice Casino
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Dufy Dolce far Niente (Tribute to Mozart)
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Dufy Red Violin