fauvism style
Thursday, July 15th, 2010fauvism style
Who influenced Fauvism???
Fauvism / def- style of painting introduced in Paris in the early twentieth century, characterized by areas of bright, contrasting color and simplified shapes
Look up Gustave Moreau, he was Matisse’s teacher along with other artists who were encompassed under the umbrella of “Les Fauves”. Also in a addition to the artists previously mentioned I would look into Georges Braque, he’s lesser known than Picasso, but arguably could have been ahead of him in forming cubism. He was also a fauve.
A Braque work:
http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/popova.jpg
Matisse, Gauguin, and Van Gogh are probably the most well known and fit into the definition of fauvism. Matisse used colors that were not logical in order to portray a mood, usually frenzied. A good example is http://genevapubliclibrary.org/images/stories/programs/matisse_thedessert.png
Van Gogh’s use of color was intertwined with his battle with manic depression, but he would use vibrant colors to show feelings and moods as well. My favorite example is the night cafe
http://cuetable.com/LaFortune/images/vincent-van-gogh-night-cafe.jpg
That’s not a great recreation of it but you can look it up somewhere else, The red and green contrast is used to make you feel uneasy, and the green in the glowing area around the lights is to make you feel slightly sick. This was a cafe he actually frequented and was usually drunk while painting!
Now, Gauguin and Van Gogh were ‘frenemies’ as we say in art history. They knew each other, worked together often, but also were in competition with each other. (They were both under recognized during their lifetime). He was more focused on the abstraction of form by simplifying shapes. He also traveled to tahiti and to this small part of France where a sect of christianity was isolated from the rest of the world. While there he painted Vision after the Sermon
http://fits.depauw.edu/aharris/Courses/ArtH132/galleries/images/fullsize/fs_Gauguin_Vision.jpg
I love this one, he has flattened the picture plane, making it hard to tell how deep the picture really is. He has also made the background red and simplified the figures. This was supposedly the vision everyone at the sermon actually shared.
I hope that helps! I don’t know what exactly you’re using this information for but those were some great influences
J’adore Dior – Casol Magazine