Fauvism: summary, characteristics and artists

O Fauvismo (ou Fovismo) was an artistic movement of avant-garde Europe, recognized as an artistic trend in 1905.

Or group, quite heterogeneous, pregava or use of cores fortes, simplified forms, and, generally, in works that we celebrate with joy. The great nomes dessa geração foram Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy and André Derain.

Or Restaurant (1905), by Maurice de Vlaminck — *Or restaurant* (1905), by Maurice de Vlaminck

I summarize: what was it or Fauvism?

O Fauvismo nasceu na França was reconfirmed as an artistic current in 1905, from an exhibition carried out no Salão de Outono, em Paris. Not a year to follow, the artists also exhibited at Salão dos Independentes, consolidating even more to the artistic flow.

The group of avant-garde europeu was not properly organized: not have a manifest nem nenhum type of program, I was not a school com ideas bem defined. The dessa geração foram artists produced relatively heterogeneous works - embora fossem all informally led by the painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954).

Main Fauvist Artists

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The main Fauvist artists were Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet (1875-1947), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) and André Derain (1880-1954).

O nome fauvismo vem da expressão you fauves (what in French wants to say feras, animais selvagens). Or I was given the art critic Louis Vauxcelles (1870-1943) in a pejorative way, to identify a group of painters who produce innovative and shocking creations for his own time.

Or adjective was chosen by Louis to visit a room in the Salão de Outono where we are exhibiting a series of Fauvist works by or by a Renaissance sculptor Donatello (1386-1466). Vauxcelles then crept up that it seemed that the sculpture was surrounded by animais selvagens.

Artists will end up gossiping, which should be a criticism, and assimilating expressing themselves by identifying themselves as the Fauvists.

Embora a Fauvist production had been quite rich, or a group did not last many years. The end of the movement began to be delineated as the emergence of Cubism, in 1907, led by Pablo Picasso and initially represented on canvas. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Characteristics of Fauvism

To the importance of cores

A current artistic trazia a certain rebellion, a movement of experimentation radical. You fauvists defendiam, acima de tudo, an exploration of strong cores, shocking, vibrant, intense.

As três sombrinhas Raoul Dufy — *As three shades* (1906), by Raoul Dufy

It treats itself to a strident palette (the artists especially use vermelho, or green, or blue, or yellow), promoting an explosion of pure colors (inks that go directly to the bisnagas).

Maurice de Vlaminck chegou to state:

I want to set fire to the Escola de Belas Artes com meus vermelhos e azuis

An interesting fact: as hearts are not necessarily linked to reality, there is also a sense of freedom. Take, for example, cloth Portrait of Madame Matisse, painted in 1905 by Matisse:

*Portrait of Madame Matisse* (1905), by Matisse

There are also many fabrics dessa geração fazendo use of color sheets (in a series of specific highlights).

As forms and subjects not Fauvism

The paintings dessa geração were usually worked from long strokes, organized. We can also identify the Fauvist fish, a nonsensical movement simplification of forms.

Os fauvists faziam use of flat shapes, veneered, flat surfaces (with less volume notion). Produziam sobretudo um space free and two-dimensional, semi depth, many times breaking perspective. Repair, for example, an iconic fabric To dance:

A dance matisse — *To dance* (1905), by Matisse

In terms of tom and style, these painters were interested in paint with joy, with ludicidade, preferably light and mundane themes - ao birdsso das representações bitter and burdened by dor that was customary to fazer.

According to Matisse, em Notes d'un Peintre, or Fauvism aspires:

an art of balance, gives purity and serenity, destitute of disturbing or depressing themes

Themes that frequently seduced the Fauvists were a questão da arte primitiva e a questão pela origin do homem (It is not rare to find nessa geração a series of works with a presença do nu, relembre, for example, to cloth Joy of Nursery).

Alegria de Viver Matisse — *Joy of Nursery* (1906), by Matisse

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), or Fauvist leader

Gravurist, painter, deanist and sculptor: esse foi Henri Emile Benoit Matisse, or principal nome do Fauvismo.

Born in the north of France, a family of an entrepreneur who sells cereals, Henri was influenced by the family to study Direito. Depois de forma, he still advocated for some time, but in parallel he kept the classrooms of development.

In 1891 he abandoned advocacy from time to time and entered the Fine Arts course. Five years later he participated in his first important exhibition (not Salão da Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes).

In 1904 he managed to carry out his first individual exhibition (at Galeria Vollard) and not to continue to appear, alongside colleagues, innovative work in Salão de Outono.

During Fauvism, Matisse created large canvases that would be used for painting as Portrait of Madame Matisse, Joy of Nursery and Harmony in vermelho.

His works are famous for not only in France, but they will end up being exhibited in London, New York, Moscow and other great capitals of the world.

Throughout his life Matisse devoted himself to plastic arts, having gone through quite different styles.

Matisse died on November 3, 1954 in Nice, in France.