Sarah Whitfield

Fauvism

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Les Fauves (the wild beasts) was the nickname given in 1905 to a group of painters led by Henri Matisse. Today, their paintings are among the most popular of all twentieth-century art. Yet when Matisse and his friends - Derain, Vlaminck, Marquet, Dufy and Braque among them - first exhibited their work, the reaction of public and critics was astonishment and often hostility. Using strong, even strident, colors, applied in a manner deriving from Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, the Fauves took painting back to its basic principles, inspired by primitive art, popular prints and children's paintings, and paved the way to Cubism. The artists, their… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-500-20227-2
EAN: 9780500202272
Produktnummer: 9174701
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Masse: H20.9 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.4 cm 422 g
Abbildungen: 147 Illustrations, black and white; 24 Illustrations, color
Gewicht: 422

Über den Autor

Sarah Whitfield is an art historian, writer and curator. She is co-author of the René Magritte Catalogue Raisonné, and serves on the authentication committee for the Estate of Francis Bacon.