Matisse flower market history
Dongen meaning!
Kees van Dongen (1877-1968)
Les Fauves
Derived from the French word for Wild Beasts, Fauvism was a short-lived colourist art movement, centred on Paris, which lasted from 1905 to 1907.
The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Andre Derain (1880-1954).
Matisse illness
Other artists who were involved in the Fauvist group included Georges Rouault (1871-1958), Henri Charles Manguin (1874-1949), Albert Marquet (1875-1947), Jean Puy (1876-1960), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), Charles Camoin (1879-1964) and Georges Braque (1882-1963).
A loose knit group; they preferred strong colour in painting to naturalistic representation, taking Neo-impressionism to another level. An art critic described their paintings as an "orgy of pure colours". He meant pure, for their own sake, rather than for descriptive purposes; and orgy, implying the artists were out of control.
Fauvism was the French precursor to Expressionism, and its subject ma
