2. Uses bright, wild, and vividly
intense colors to help convey a
mood.
Lines are simplified as much as
possible as well as very unnatural
lines.
Usually have no really basis in
reality, and often look very
childish.
First Art Revolution of the 20th
century.
Major Artists: Paul
Gauguin, Maurice
Vlaminck, André Derain, Henri
Matisse, and Maurice Marionot
3. • Started in Europe
during the 20th century
in about 1905.
• Were first recognized
when they had their
first exhibition in Paris,
France.
• Officially began in 1898
in France.
5. • June 7th 1848- May 8th 1903
• A major founder along with Henri
Matisse.
• Loved experimenting with colors,
even had symbolic meanings for
each color.
• Mostly did Self- portraits.
• He moved to Tahiti to paint the
people and he believed, “ water
does not reflect what’s above the
surface”.
• He also loved to do paintings of
the native people in Tahiti.
9. • June 10th 1880- September 8th 1954
• Was considered to be one of the major
founders of Fauvism.
• Attended Academie Carriere in Paris
where he met Matisse.
• He had to convince his parents to allow
him to be a painter, and was originally
going to be an engineer.
• Derain loved using bold colors, especially
in his paintings of the Thames and
Tower Bridge.
• After 1906, his role of colors were
reduced and the forms became
restricted.
• After his military service was over( WWI)
he went back to Classicism.
13. • April 4th 1876- October 11th 1958
• French painter who is also considered a
major figure in the Fauvism movement.
• Much of his inspiration comes from the
Impressionist movement.
• He was an artist who taught himself, rather
then being trained.
• He put much of his emphasis on nature.
• He worked with Master Printer Charles
Surlier.
• Was in the Military which caused him to go
back and forth with his art work.
17. • December 31, 1869- November 3rd
1954
• Was a major founder of the
movement along with André Derain.
• Attended Academie Carriere.
• The key to his success was by using
exaggerated colors with simplified
drawings.
• He amplified the sense of joy that he
had achieved through the color he
used.
• He has an instinctive sensibility in his
work.
21. • March 20th 1882- 1960.
• He was a painter as well as a glassmaker.
• He was also a member of “Les Fauves”
the Fauvism group.
• His parents sent him to Ecole De Beaux-
Arts in Paris for painting.
• He spent the rest of his life in his home
town, Troyes working in his glass shop
until he got sick and couldn’t work
anymore.
• His glasswork was praised in his 1st
exhibition saying “ it has been a long
time since an innovation of such great
importance has come to enrich the art
of glass”.
• A lot of his works were destroyed in a
bombing during World War I.
24. • Fauvism’s name was not given to it by
one of the artists, but by a critic, Camille
Mauclair.
• He thought this entire movement was a
threat to all the art standards.
• He came up with “ Les Fauves” which is
French for “Wild Beasts”.
