FAUVISM

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The “Fauves”

• The group is not homogeneous and lacks of a defined programme,

• They share – their opposition to the Art Nouveau decoration and– opposition to the formal consistence of the Symbolism.

• Members of this group are:– Matisse,– Marquet,– Dufy,– Derain,– Braque, and – Vlaminck.

Phylosophy

• They conceived the art as a vital impulse• They started depicting some subjects in

a critic way.• Far from Cezanne’s synthesis there was

just one possibility: to solve the dualism between:– the feeling –the colour –– and the construction –the plastic form, the

volume, the space –putting special strength on the colour

Technique

• Their main objective is the pursue of colour with a plastic-constructive aim, as a structural element of the vision.

• Some of them dissolved the image, following Van Gogh or Signac

• They tend to make evident– the additive process, – the structure of the image and – they use spare brushstrokes, evident,

distributed with a certain order and rhythm that give sense to the mater, the colour and the material construction of the image

Characteristics

• The group appeared in France between 1903 and 1907.

• Their style is vigorous, far from any academic principal.

• Their characteristics are: – lyric and expressive character

expressed through the colour; – attempt to conciliate real and interior

world;

Characteristics

– they look for the essential and simple; – among the subjects there are:

• landscapes, f• luvial scenes and • lyric scenes with an important weight of

imagination;

Characteristics

– they represent reality in a subjective way;

– they emphasize the colour with pure colours, saturated, mainly flat, underlined by the line of the contours and without any reference to the subject or the image;

– formal synthesis;– elimination of spatial perspective;

Characteristics

– suppression of the definition of forms based on the chiaroscuro;

– references to exotic and primitive cultures;

– they created pictorial spaces based on decorative motives taken from wall papers or crafts’ pieces

Influences

• Their influences come from different movements: – Fromthe impressionist:

• theory of colour, • chromatic joy, • daily life subjects, • landscapes, • interiors, • portraits • and still-lives.

Influences

– From the Post-impressionism they took:• the division in zones, • the plenitude of colour, • Gauguin’s decorative sense, • Van Gogh’s vivid nature.

Influences

– From the German Expressionism they assumed:• the pure and vigorous colour, • the lack of modelling, • the strong and direct line, • the dynamic sensuality and the subjective

interpretation of the artist.

Influences

– From exotic cultures they took:• the richness of colour • and formal references.

– They had an influence on other Avant-Garde movements.