Collin McCoy and Amanda Glass

Salon d’Automne: 1905

Room 7

Donatello amid the wild

beasts!

Fauvism and its Origins

Impressionism

• Often nature and landscapes

• Natural colors but intensified

• Thick, direct-to-canvas application of paint (Van Gogh)

• Use color contrast to create illusions of shading

• Perspective

Fauvism

• Often nature and landscapes

• Unnatural colors

• Thick, direct-to-canvas application of paint

• Use color contrast to intensify feelings

• No perspective

Seurat’s Pointillism

Seurat’s impact on Derain

Defining Characteristics

• COLOR: unnatural colors that express emotion, rather than imitate reality

• SIMPLICITY: no details. Mostly geometric shapes (but not to the point of Cubism).

• EXPRESSIVENESS: this was the beginning of expressionism! Emotions are conveyed through the use of color!

• EVERYDAY SUBJECTS: often landscapes, but also portraits and the occasional still life. Things that you would see everyday, but in an obscure way.

Henri Matisse

• Born in Le Chateau in 1869

• Originally planned to study law

• Taught by Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

• Went on to papier colle

• Died in 1954

Maurice de Vlaminck

• Born in Paris in 1876

• Moved to Chatou at the age of 16 and by the time he was 18 he had a wife and a daughter

• Was against art school

• Saw an exhibit of Van Gogh’s art and was inspired by the thick, direct-to-canvas painting

• Went on to duller, blue, white and grey landscapes and later his own expressionist style with dark colors

• Died in 1958

André Derain

• Born in Chatou in 1880

• Went to the CarriereAcademy with Matisse

• Met de Vlaminck in 1901 due to a train derailment. They lived in the same town.

• The bridge between de Vlaminck and Matisse

• Reverted to Realism

• Died in Chambourg at the age of 74

Georges Rouault

• Born in Paris in 1871

• Went to Ecole des Beaux-Arts with Matisse

• Died in 1958

Influences

• Cubism

• DADAism

• Futurism

• Minimalism

• Expressionism

• Papier Colle(collage)

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