I’ve been familiar with André Derain as an originator of Fauvism, a painter of wildly colored landscapes and portraits with energetic brushstrokes and skewed drawings. If you don’t know what I mean, Google “Derain” and […]
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What Price Fauvism?
On February 9th Bateaux à Collioure by André Derain sold at Christie’s of London for £5,865,250 ($9.4 million). Derain painted the scene of boats in the harbor during the summer of 1905 that he spent painting […]
Why Fauvism?
Once I was in a choir where the director taught us how to hit the high notes. She said if you strain to slide up toward the high note, you’ll always be flat. To hit […]
Fauvism: Part 2
Georges Braque was another French artist who was influenced by Matisse and Derain. He painted in the Fauvist style for a short period before evolving toward cubism. See several examples of his work in this […]
What is Fauvism?
Fauvism developed when Henri Matisse painted with Andre Derain at Collioure on the French Riviera during the summer of 1905. Matisse’s Open Window Collioure combined landscape with a rectangular window composition and exciting color. In […]
Revival of Fauvism
In the Post Impressionist period of the early 20th century, a group of artists experimented with bold, expressive color and defined brushstrokes. They were influenced by Vincent VanGogh and Paul Gaugin who had begun using more […]