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Please download and print one or two of these Fauve images and bring them to your workshop.
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Each image below has a PDF file attached.
Please download and print one or two of these Fauve images and bring them to your workshop.
Print minimum size A4. Preferred size A3, which can be printed for you at Mangawhai Books and Gifts, Wood St.
The Wild Beasts (Fauves)
Paris, 1905. Henri Matisse, age thirty-six, has just arrived from the South of France with fifteen new paintings. Finally, he is pleased with his work. But when he submits the canvases to the Salon d'automne, the season's major public art event, the Salon president—fearing for Matisse's reputation—tries to dissuade him.
Matisse and colleagues, including André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Albert Marquet, persevere, and their paintings are hung in Room 7. The public jeers at the "orgy of pure colours" judging the works primitive, brutal, and violent. The artists are dubbed "fauves"—wild beasts. Room 7 becomes "la cage."
The term fauve, actually coined by a generally sympathetic critic, has stuck. It describes a style that, while short-lived, was the first avant-garde wave of the twentieth century. The jeering audiences in Room 7 got an early look at what the century would bring.
Most of these fauve paintings were done in the years immediately after the 1905 exhibition.
Paris, 1905. Henri Matisse, age thirty-six, has just arrived from the South of France with fifteen new paintings. Finally, he is pleased with his work. But when he submits the canvases to the Salon d'automne, the season's major public art event, the Salon president—fearing for Matisse's reputation—tries to dissuade him.
Matisse and colleagues, including André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Albert Marquet, persevere, and their paintings are hung in Room 7. The public jeers at the "orgy of pure colours" judging the works primitive, brutal, and violent. The artists are dubbed "fauves"—wild beasts. Room 7 becomes "la cage."
The term fauve, actually coined by a generally sympathetic critic, has stuck. It describes a style that, while short-lived, was the first avant-garde wave of the twentieth century. The jeering audiences in Room 7 got an early look at what the century would bring.
Most of these fauve paintings were done in the years immediately after the 1905 exhibition.
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Georges Braque - Road to Estaque 1907
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André Derain, Charing Cross Bridge
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Maurice de Vlaminck, The Road
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Maurice de Vlaminck, Landscape with tugboat
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Maurice de Vlaminck - Rueil Near Paris, 1912
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Maurice de Vlaminck , Partie de campagne à Bougival
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André Derain - St Pauls seen from the Thames
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Maurice de Vlaminck - Grenoble
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Georges Braque - The Large Trees, Estaque
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Maurice de Vlaminck - Landscape with Red Roofs 1907
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Maurice de Vlaminck - Houses at Chatou
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Georges Braque - Olive tree, Estaque
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Maurice de Vlaminck, Still Life 1908
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Maurice de Vlaminck - Barges on the Seine 1906
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Henri Matisse - Still Life with Oranges
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Claude Monet - Reflections on the Thames 1905
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Maurice de Vlaminck - View of the Seine
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