Charles Camoin, Auguste Chabaud, etc.
Braque Georges
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Derain André
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Marquet Albert
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Matisse Henri
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Rouault Georges
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Van Dongen Kees
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Vlaminck Maurice
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Friesz Othon
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Manguin Henri
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Delaunay Sonia
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Dufy Raoul
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Valtat Louis
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The name “Fauvism” was coined by journalist Louis Vauxcelles. This French artistic movement was short-lived, it manifested itself for the first time at the Salon d’Automne in 1905 and by 1907 was all but gone.
The painters who called themselves Fauvists wanted to react against Impressionism and its visual sensations, while at the same time allowing their art to produce violent responses to the new challenge of photography. They sought to dissociate color and object so as to let color reveal its full expressive intensity. Their references were Paul Gauguin, precisely for his use of color, and Toulouse-Lautrec for the freedom and the abandon with which he drew. They found some of their inspiration in exotic artistic forms from Africa and the Pacific.
At the time, art critics and the public-at-large both showed nothing but contempt for the movement. However, such art dealers as Ambroise Vollard ardently supported Fauvism and today this school of painting is considered as the first artistic revolution of the 20th century.
Fauvism liberated color and allowed it to live independently on the canvas; it also permitted the artist’s emotions to become an essential element of the pictorial representation.
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Others movements :
ITALIAN NOVECENTO -
RAYONNISM -
NEW FIGURATION -
Index chosen on the movements, important currents and events in the XX 2nd century art
I wanted to give here, with 46 various short introductions, some general elements on the movements or currents of art, groups or exhibitions, which concern the artists whose works are presented in gallery or were it recently. The table, above, will make it possible to visually locate the periods or dates in time.
Each entry is followed of a list of the principal artists belonging to the movement or current. It may be that there is only one simple relationship between such or such artist and the movement in which in theory one locates it (Click on the names in blue to reveal work or works currently in stock).
It will be understood, some movements are represented much than of others in my gallery. The same artist will be often found in several movements (as each one knows it, it was thus).
Although these some introductions, briefly developed, are not addressed to the specialists, they will forgive me the few lapses of memory or choices which would lend to discussion. I hope that these tiny introductions will be however useful to some of you. Michelle Champetier
