Term that appoints to a movement of vanguard
that arises after 1900.
The first exhibition of the fauvist painters was held
at the Autumn Art Hall in 1905.
The art critic Louis Vauxcelles after he saw the shrill and aggressive chromatic ranges of the works exposed, he named them with the term "fauves".
This name was in origin a pejorative one, as it also happened to other artistic movements of the XX S , but it was assumed by the public and subsequently it was introduced in the art history without scornful connotations.
The movement was formed around Henri Matisse and its members were
André Derain, Maurice of Vlaminick, Henri Manguin,
Albert Marquet, Jean Puy and Emile Otón Friesz.
Later, in 1906 George Braque and Raoul Dufy also joined this group.
The Fauvism was not a consciously definite movement, it lacked a general proposal. It was a mosaic of contributions in which each painter attacked his works as a personal experience of spontaneity and of coolness. They reject the conventionalisms of the epoch, the rules and the rational methods established.
They react against the Impressionism and against the importance that the impressionis painters had given to the light at the cost of the loss of the color.
The fauvist painters believed that the feelings could be expressed through the colors . The color conditioned the painting. They do not seek the naturalistic representation, but to highlight the value of the color. Because of ithis, they rejected the palette of soft tones employed by the impressionists in favor of the violent colors to create a greater expressive emphasis.
They employed an energetic, direct and thick brushstroke.
The figures were lineal and they shaped of the volumes with gross and dark lines.
The fauvist creation responded to an exercise of sintetización. They seek the maximum emotional intensity combined with
the maximum simplification of elements.
Because of this they renounce to the classical perspective and to the chiaroscuro. The light tends to disappear, the same as the depth.
Their themes are portraits, still lifes,
personages in interiors, colorfull landscapes.
The fauvistas intend to express an artistic and human truth.
Their painting was managed by the instincts.
partially extracted from arteespaña.com
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