{"id":226619,"date":"2025-08-13T07:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museumtv.art\/artnews\/articles\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:41:04","slug":"fauvism-a-highly-colourful-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museumtv.art\/en\/artnews\/articles\/fauvism-a-highly-colourful-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauvism: a highly colourful movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Salon d’Automne<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>of 1905 <\/span>marked<\/span> the <\/span>beginning<\/span> of <\/span>Fauvism<\/span><\/strong>.<\/strong> In Room VII of <\/span>this<\/span> Salon, <\/span>held<\/span> in Paris at the Grand Palais, <\/span>works<\/span> by Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andr\u00e9 Derain, Henri <\/span>Manguin<\/span>, Charles Camoin, and Albert Marquet <\/span>were<\/span> exhibited<\/span>. <\/span>Visitors<\/span> and art <\/span>critics<\/span> wandered<\/span> through<\/span> the exhibition and <\/span>discovered<\/span> colorful<\/span>, original <\/span>works<\/span>. On <\/span>this<\/span> occasion, Louis <\/strong><\/a><\/span>Vauxcelles<\/span><\/strong><\/a> wrote<\/span> a <\/span>mocking<\/span> article <\/span>that<\/span> would<\/span> give<\/span> the <\/span>movement<\/span> its<\/span> name<\/span>. He <\/span>wrote<\/span>:<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n

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“In the center of the room, a <\/span>child’s<\/span> torso<\/span> and a <\/span>small<\/span> marble<\/span> bust<\/span> by Albert Marque, <\/span>who<\/span> models<\/span> with<\/span> delicate<\/span> skill<\/span>. The <\/span>candor<\/span> of <\/span>these<\/span> busts<\/span> is<\/span> surprising<\/span>, <\/span>amidst<\/span> the <\/span>orgy<\/span> of pure <\/span>tones<\/span>: Donatello <\/span>among<\/span> the Fauves.”<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>Louis Vauxcelles<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

One of the <\/span>paintings<\/span> that<\/span> caused<\/span> a <\/span>particular<\/span> scandal<\/span> was<\/span> Henri <\/span><\/strong><\/a>Matisse<\/strong><\/a>‘s<\/span> Woman<\/span> with<\/span> a Hat, <\/span>which<\/span> earned<\/span> the <\/span>painter<\/span> the <\/span>nickname<\/span> “King of the Fauves.”<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Henri Matisse,<\/span><\/span> Woman<\/span> with<\/span> a Hat<\/span><\/span>, <\/span>oil<\/span> on <\/span>canvas<\/span>, 81 x 60 cm, 1905, San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art<\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

This painting illustrates the main characteristics of this movement: an expressive color<\/strong> palette. Pure tones pushed to the height of their intensity contrast with each other. There is no <\/span>drawing;<\/span> larges<\/span> areas of color form the motif. A black outline is regularly <\/span>observed<\/span>, delineating spaces.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n

A <\/span>chromaticism<\/span> that<\/span> defies<\/span> the <\/span>laws<\/span> of perception<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/h2>\n\n
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Mich\u00e8le-Eug\u00e8ne Chevreul, On the Law of Simultaneous Color Contrast, Paris, Pitois-Levrault et Cie, 1839 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The painting style is reminiscent of the Impressionists and their vivid brushwork. The subjects and the chromatic dissociation between reality and creation are more reminiscent of the Nabi and <\/a><\/strong><\/span>Pont<\/span><\/strong>-Aven School<\/strong>.<\/span><\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n

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This work, with its ambiguous spatial composition and garish colors, introduces the painter’s discourse of emancipation from the constraints of the thing seen. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paul Gauguin, <\/span><\/span>Vision after the Sermon or Jacob’s Combat with the Angel<\/span><\/span>, oil on canvas, 72 x 91 cm, 1888, Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Gauguin<\/strong> <\/a>played a formative role for the Nabi artists. He met Paul S\u00e9rusier and advised him not to depict landscapes mimetically, but to prioritize his own perception.<\/span> <\/span>This phenomenon is particularly visible in Maurice Denis’s depictions of Annunciation. A before-and-after of the artist’s liberties with color.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Maurice Denis, <\/span><\/span>The Catholic Mystery,<\/span><\/span> oil on canvas, 97 x 143 cm, 1889, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Maurice Denis-Le <\/a><\/span>Prieur\u00e9<\/span> Departmental Museum<\/span><\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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Maurice Denis, <\/span><\/span>Annunciation at the Priory Window<\/span><\/span>, oil on canvas, 73 x 93 cm, 1916, Rodez, Denys-Puech Museum<\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

Some Key Works of Fauvism<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/h2>\n
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Andr\u00e9 Derain, <\/span><\/span>Charing Bridge, also known as Westminster Bridge<\/span><\/span>, oil on canvas, 1906, Paris, <\/span>Mus\u00e9e<\/span> d’Orsay<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

During his trip to London, Derain<\/strong><\/a> produced around thirty canvases. He created the roadway and the cityscape in large flat areas of paint. The sky and water are created with fragmented brushstrokes reminiscent of Divisionism and Pointillism. The division of color echoes Signac’s painting, The Red Buoy.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Signac, <\/span><\/span>The Red Buoy<\/span><\/span>, 1895, oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm, Paris, <\/span>Mus\u00e9e<\/span> d’Orsay<\/span><\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>
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Henri Matisse, <\/span><\/span>Portrait of Madame Matisse with a Green Stripe<\/span><\/span>, oil on canvas, 42 x 32 cm, 1905, Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Art<\/a><\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

The color scheme is <\/span>very similar<\/span> to that used for Woman with a Hat. “The woman’s face” <\/em>is separated by a “green stripe” along the line of her nose. A sort of shadow effect is depicted on the left half of her face in greenish tones. Her hair is composed of blue and <\/span>mauve<\/span>. The whole is organized by a black outline. Matisse overturns the codes of one of the most valued genres<\/span>: the portrait<\/span>. Here, the painter abandons the guidelines of resemblance and staging that characterize the portrait.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Raoul Dufy, Old Houses on the Honfleur Basin, oil on canvas, 1906, Honfleur, Eug\u00e8ne Boudin Museum <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

Dufy<\/strong> <\/a>presents the old houses of Honfleur through a colored prism and <\/span>plays on<\/span> reflection. A play is created between the original and its reflection. The work is based on color more than on topographical reality. The landscape was a favorite subject for Fauve artists who, like the Nabis, traveled extensively.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n

And the subject ?<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/h2>\n\n

“A painting is above all a medium for color.”<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em> <\/span><\/p>Maurice Denis<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n

This can be seen a few years later with the artistic evolution of Piet Mondrian<\/strong><\/a> (1872-1944) whose mature works are named by numbers.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Piet Mondrian, <\/span><\/span>Red Tree<\/span><\/span>, oil on canvas, 1908, The Hague, Main Museum of Modern Art <\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Piet Mondrian, <\/span><\/span>Composition II<\/span><\/span>, oil on canvas, 1930, Paris, Center Pompidou<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Salon d’Automne of 1905 marked the beginning of Fauvism. In Room VII of this Salon, held in Paris at the Grand Palais, works by Henri Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andr\u00e9 Derain, Henri Manguin, Charles Camoin, and Albert Marquet were exhibited. Visitors and art critics wandered through the exhibition and discovered colorful, original works. 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Fauvism, like Cubism, were ephemeral movements<\/strong>, but they marked the beginning of the 20th-century avant-garde movement<\/strong>. They continued with the Surrealists.<\/span> <\/span>Little by little, the subject began to disappear. Subjects became pretexts for painting. Maurice Denis<\/strong><\/a>, leader of the Nabis, said about this: <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n

This chromaticism at the beginning of the 20th<\/strong> century was made possible thanks to the invention of paint tubes in the 1840s but <\/span>mainly with<\/span> the theories on colors of the chemist Michel-Eug\u00e8ne Chevreul<\/strong><\/a> from 1839. Chevreul, working at the Manufacture des Gobelins, noted that the human eye does not perceive a color as such, but is always conditioned by the surrounding colors. He took up and improved the color wheel and theorized the complementary warm and cold colors, <\/span>located<\/span> opposite each other on the color wheel.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n\n