Les Fauves

Fauvism began as a style around 1900s unfourtunately it was not lasted long, only a few years, 1904 -1908 and had three exhibitions.It is a French word for ' the wild beasts' and developed by Henri Matisse and Andre Derain.They started a group under the name of Les Fauves. It can be seen as a mode of Expressionism.The style was originated from the post-impressionist paintings of Paul Gaugin.Colour had a symbolic vocabulary for Gaugin because it can translate range of emotions visually.Such kind of example can be seen in his painting 'Vision after the Sermon'.The name was given to the group by the art critic Louis Vauxcelles.The group believed that colour shold express the feelings of artist about a subject  not just to describe what it looks like.Affects of Fauvism can be seen on German Expressionists.Finally it can be said that fauvism is a simplified drawing it has no regulations and rules and les fauves is a group of artists who believed that there is relation between colour and emotions.
                               
                                                     

Henri Matisse 'The Roofs of Collioure' 1905

Andre Derain 'Portrait of Henri Matisse'  1906

Andre Derain 'Turning Road at L'Estaque' 1906