This document provides an overview of Les Fauves, a early 20th century art movement known for its bold use of pure color and painterly techniques. It discusses the social/historical context of 1900s Europe and introduces some of the key Fauvist artists like Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck. Their goal was to express emotion through color alone, breaking from academic traditions. The document also examines influences on the Fauves like Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cezanne and how the movement served as a transition between Impressionism and Expressionism.

1. Les Fauves
By: Amanda Houghton,
Freya Thodesen- Kasparian and
Lucas Gonzalez

2. pictures

3. Contents Page
• Preview
• Background, what's happening in the 1900s?
• Pre-Fauve and Normal Fauve
• Specific Artists
• Its effect on the rest of the Art World
• The End

4. Introductory Quote by Henri
Matisse
"What I dream of is an art of expression...
What I dream of is an art of balance, purity and
serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing
subject-matter. I want my work to be
soothing, so that the exhausted, overworked
and stressed spectator finds rest and calm in
it."
-- Henri Matisse

5. Comparison Matisse

8. A bit of Background
• Imperialism started to gain popularity.
• New technology was coming out. Like the
camera and the bicycle.
• The tensions of The Great War were pulling
on Europe at the time.

9. Fauve
Name

10. What was the Goal of Les Fauves?
• overall goal was to express emotion through
the color of paint
• No artistic creed or rules
• Though it is difficult to say the aims of the
Fauve group, this person gave it their all
• "To render the equivalent of sunlight by means of a technique
based on color orchestration, by emotional transpositions
(with the emotions inspired by nature as our point of
departure) whose truths and theories were built up in the
course of enthusiastic research work."

11. What kind of style did Les Fauves
Have?
• Les Fauves styles encompassed a wide
range, that is much easier shown than
explained.

15. Up next... the main Proponents of
Fauvism!

16. Henri Matisse

17. "Lost in these chaotic
surroundings, discouraged from the moment
of my arrival... from monday to friday, and so
meaningless that their perfection made me
dizzy." - Henri Matisse

22. Andre Derain
• Became
friends with
Matisse in
1898
• Met Vlaminck
in 1900
• Exhibited
Fauvist works
at the Salon
d'Automne in
1905

23. Andre Derain
• Went to the South of France with Matisse in
summer 1905
• Painted with vibrant, saturated color in
broad, sweeping brushstrokes
• Used color as a means of evoking emotion

24. Boats at Collioure 1905

25. Boats at Collioure's Harbor 1905

26. The Thames 1906

27. London Bridge 1906

31. Maurice de Vlaminck
• “I wanted to express my
feelings without troubling
what painting was like
before me...When I've got
the color tubes in my
hand, I don‟t give a damn
about other people‟s
pictures. Life and me, me
and life-that‟s all that
matters.”

36. Key Influences on Fauvism
• Specifically other artists

37. Gustave Moreau
• Teacher at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts.
• Liberal teacher who allowed/ encouraged his
students to branch out and experiment
• “You must think colour, have imagination with it. If you
have no imagination you'll never paint beautiful color.
You must copy nature with imagination - that is what
makes an artist. Colour must be
thought, dreamt, imagined.”

38. Van Gogh
• Influenced the Fauve movement with his
technique and unique style.
• The artist he influenced the most was
Maurice De Vlaminck.

41. Gauguin
• He was the first to use flat color as an
emotive form on his paintings.
• First really became noticed on his
painting, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel.
(next slide)
• “how do you see these trees?‟ „they are yellow‟. well
then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue.
So render it with pure ultramarine...”

43. Braque
• Earlier works were Impressionistic
• Became interested in the Fauvist style of
painting when he saw an exhibition featuring
Fauvist works
• He created more subdued Fauvist-style
paintings, drawn to use of color and loose
line to convey emotion

44. Landscape at L'Estaque 1906

45. Cezanne
• He used different angles to mess with form
and space. He tried to put different
perspectives into one art piece.
• Influenced Vlaminck

46. Down Fall/ Expressionism
• By 1908 the Fauves begin to drift apart and
go their separate ways
• Derain and Braque shifted towards Cubism
• Matisse transitioned from a Fauvist focus on
color to that of balance and simplicity
• Fauvism was a transitionary movement
between Impressionism and Expressionism

47. Finished!