The Fauvism Art Movement

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Art is an expression of feelings, body language, culture produced by humans. Art can be expressed in many different ways, and in many different forms from times periods way before you think! You’d be amazed with the different type of skilled work artist come up with each day and it’s all just someone, one person expressing how they feel or what they believe. One form of art that I find very interesting particular is Fauvism. Fauvism is an expressionism that is expressed by art, music literature. This type of art is the spiritually and emotional vision of the world in Artist eyes. Fauvism was a short-lived movement; it lasted only from the time period of 1905-1908. In my opinion based off of how appealing it was it could have been longer. It originated in France. Artist who produced this type of art work were called fauves, French for “wild beast” because they were described to use intense colors, uncontrollably.

Fauve’s art were different in each other of their own exclusive ways, but they all have the same origin, different feelings but same structure. They all did different mediums as well; for an example like I said they used art to express music, literature, and an emotional vision of the world from their perspective. Artist like Henri Matisse and André Derain with many more artists’ art was bright colored, exciting, attractive, and vividly expressed within their hands. They used communicative colors like red to show pain and hurt or blood or even the items that within the painting that describes the mood. Or another example could be Henri Matisse 'The Open Window, Collioure', 1905; he used his colors wisely and intensely. Most of the artist used oil, oil on canvas, and paint. Each piece of art work was used to perfection. ...

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...tory not just because they created a new form of art work, but because not only is it an exceptional form of art but it’s unusual. Not really unusual but different, it’s different because how short the art movement was. It was short but it has been long lived by many people and young artist today. In the end this art movement was not only great, but worth it.

Works Cited

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