CategoriesStyles and Movements
Contemporary Fauvist
Recent painting that uses the bold, unnatural colour and loose handling of the Fauves for landscapes, interiors, figures and still lifes.
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The Fauves earned their nickname, the wild beasts, at the Paris Salon d'Automne of 1905. Henri Matisse, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck painted trees red, faces green and rivers orange, laying colour in bold patches to express feeling rather than describe what the eye saw. Derain's views of London, such as Charing Cross Bridge (1906), turned the Thames into a sheet of intense colour.
The approach outlived the movement, which lasted only a few years. German Expressionists pushed its colour further, Milton Avery simplified it into calm flat shapes, and Bob Thompson filled 1960s canvases with saturated figures borrowed from Old Master compositions. Peter Max carried high-key colour into psychedelic posters. Painters working in this vein today, among them Tessa Perutz with interiors and still lifes and Haley Josephs with dreamlike figures, let unexpected hues carry mood. Look for arbitrary colour, visible brushwork and simplified forms.
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