Neha and Olivia

1. By: Neha Bakshi
&
Olivia Scalf

2.  Uses bright, wild, and vividly
intense colors to help convey a
mood.
 Lines are simplified as much as
possible as well as very unnatural
lines.
 Usually have no really basis in
reality, and often look very
childish.
 First Art Revolution of the 20th
century.
 Major Artists: Paul
Gauguin, Maurice
Vlaminck, André Derain, Henri
Matisse, and Maurice Marionot

3. • Started in Europe
during the 20th century
in about 1905.
• Were first recognized
when they had their
first exhibition in Paris,
France.
• Officially began in 1898
in France.

4. André Derain
Paul Gauguin
Maurice Vlaminck
Maurice
Marionot
Henri Matisse

5. • June 7th 1848- May 8th 1903
• A major founder along with Henri
Matisse.
• Loved experimenting with colors,
even had symbolic meanings for
each color.
• Mostly did Self- portraits.
• He moved to Tahiti to paint the
people and he believed, “ water
does not reflect what’s above the
surface”.
• He also loved to do paintings of
the native people in Tahiti.

6. “The Day of God”( 1894)

7. “The Yellow Christ” ( 1889)

8. “Riders on The Beach”( 1902)

9. • June 10th 1880- September 8th 1954
• Was considered to be one of the major
founders of Fauvism.
• Attended Academie Carriere in Paris
where he met Matisse.
• He had to convince his parents to allow
him to be a painter, and was originally
going to be an engineer.
• Derain loved using bold colors, especially
in his paintings of the Thames and
Tower Bridge.
• After 1906, his role of colors were
reduced and the forms became
restricted.
• After his military service was over( WWI)
he went back to Classicism.

10. “ Charing Cross Bridge” (1906)

11. “The Pool of London” (1906)

12. “Portrait of Henri Matisse”
(1906)

13. • April 4th 1876- October 11th 1958
• French painter who is also considered a
major figure in the Fauvism movement.
• Much of his inspiration comes from the
Impressionist movement.
• He was an artist who taught himself, rather
then being trained.
• He put much of his emphasis on nature.
• He worked with Master Printer Charles
Surlier.
• Was in the Military which caused him to go
back and forth with his art work.

14. “ The River Seine at Chatou” (1906)

15. Restaurant de la Machine a Bougival (1905)

16. “The Circus” (1906)

17. • December 31, 1869- November 3rd
1954
• Was a major founder of the
movement along with André Derain.
• Attended Academie Carriere.
• The key to his success was by using
exaggerated colors with simplified
drawings.
• He amplified the sense of joy that he
had achieved through the color he
used.
• He has an instinctive sensibility in his
work.

18. “The Roofs of Collioure” (1905)

19. “The Open
Window,” (1905)

20. “Woman with
a Hat” (1905)

21. • March 20th 1882- 1960.
• He was a painter as well as a glassmaker.
• He was also a member of “Les Fauves”
the Fauvism group.
• His parents sent him to Ecole De Beaux-
Arts in Paris for painting.
• He spent the rest of his life in his home
town, Troyes working in his glass shop
until he got sick and couldn’t work
anymore.
• His glasswork was praised in his 1st
exhibition saying “ it has been a long
time since an innovation of such great
importance has come to enrich the art
of glass”.
• A lot of his works were destroyed in a
bombing during World War I.

22. “Nature mort
aux Pommes”
(No given year)

23. “ Interior”
( No specific year)

24. • Fauvism’s name was not given to it by
one of the artists, but by a critic, Camille
Mauclair.
• He thought this entire movement was a
threat to all the art standards.
• He came up with “ Les Fauves” which is
French for “Wild Beasts”.