Painting/Fauvism

History

Origin

  • Fauvism vem de fauves - fera
  • Foundation on the Salon 1905
  • The name originated from a remark of the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles at the Salon of 1905; coming across a quattrocento-style statue in the midst of works by Matisse and his associates, he is reputed to have said, 'Donatello au milieu des fauves! ' ('Donatello among the wild beasts').

Characteristics

IMPORTANT - IT'S PART OF EXPRESSIONISM

  1. Impulsive lines
  2. Simplifixed drawing
  3. Vibrant colours

Why I like it

  • I gives a playful vibe because of the diversity of colours, it incites in me something imaginative
  • It is as if it is okay and even respectable to be "childish"

Matisse

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Observation

  • His most important paintings

The woman with umbrella

  • Located at metropolitan
  • Museu Mattise, Nice Franc
  • He painted this when he was Collioure in a vacation with his family
  • Matisse said later he was tired about the tirany of the pointilhado style
  • 1905, very beginning of the fauvism
  • "a tela eh quase um efeito de luz intensa que irradia em uma onda de cores

projetada da figura neoimpressnista da mulher"

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View of Collioure

  • Museum Hermitage (Russia)
  • "Tive a sensacao da tonalidade de uma cor. Entao, estendia a primeira cor,

acrescentava uma segunda e, depois se me parecia nao concordar com a primeira, no lugar de corrigi-la, aplicava uma terceira, que tinh aa capacidade da harmoniza-las, ate a harmonia final"

  • "Abandonada a impressao - o motivo, o tom local - o que passa a guiar a obra eh unica

e exclusivamente uma busca pela harmonia na expressao. Dessa forma, as cores abitrarias (rosas no releveols, lilas nas paredes) sao justapostas a cores naturlistas (o azul no mar) e verossimeis (o laranja nas telhas)

  • "as cores se tornam um veiculo expressov priveligado e o caminho em direcao a abstracao"

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The open window

  • National Gallery of Washington (DC)
  • For him the windows were like an escape of a prison, so he very commonly used window

in his painting

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Seated woman back turned to the open window

  • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
  • Reminds me of Recife

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André Derain

Charing Cross Bridge, London

  • Same name as the Monet series
  • National Gallery of art
  • There is part in Moma

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Maurice Vlamik

The River Seine at Chatou

  • Very strong impasto, reminds me of Van Gogh
  • Metropolitan museum

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Written by Davi Cavalcanti Sena who lives and works in Vancouver building useless things