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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.
Georges Braque - Road to Estaque 1907
Maurice de Vlaminck - Rueil Near Paris, 1912
Derain - St Pauls seen from the Thames
Vlaminck - Grenoble
Braque - The Large Trees, Estaque
Vlaminck - Landscape with Red Roofs 1907
Vlaminck - Still life with red fruits and blue sheet
Braque - Olive tree, Estaque
Vlaminck - Barges on the Seine 1906
Henri Matisse - Still Life with Oranges
Claude Monet - The Houses of Parliament, Reflections on the Thames 1905
Maurice de Vlaminck - View of the Seine