Fauvism Essays

  • Fauvism and Orientalism

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    through many art styles in his life, from neo impressionism to pointillism, he had his fingers in many pies. In 1905 Matisse created fauvism, or the wild beasts. From then on his paintings would never be the same. He became the king of color (Cumming 99). In the 1910’s he started Orientalism. The odalisques were of a much different pattern (Abrams/Cameo 28). Fauvism and Orientalism are very different, but still alike in other ways. They can be compared on the backgrounds, colors, subjects, structure

  • The Fauvism Art Movement

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    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

  • Fauvism - Influenced by Mental Illness

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    credited with influencing and shaping the movement known as Fauvism. Undisputed documentation that mental illness influenced the Fauves is scarce and quite possibly does not exist. One only has to look then to Vincent van Gogh, whose name comes up frequently when exploring this, to see the connection and how his work may have influenced the Fauvist movement. I found myself fixated with trying to find an irrefutable connection with Fauvism and mental illness. This was not an easy or totally successful

  • Changes in the First 15 Years of the 20th Century Europe

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    First 15 years of the 20th century show the changes in the theory, and practice art, among the modern artiest in western world. First 15 years were remarkable, they compare with great and advance science and technology of same time. It was time of growing instance in western culture, and continued rapid industrial of imperial aboard, and rivalry in the Europe. During the 20th century Paris was focus of modernism. In the 19th century scientist discover the theory, which were not just question of our

  • Henri Matisse

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    Henri Matisse Henri Matisse was born December 31st, 1869 to two storeowners, Emile and Heloise Matisse. His father wanted him to be a lawyer, so later on in life he could takeover the family business. They sent him to Henri Martin Grammar School where he studied to be a lawyer. There was a hint of artist in Henri because while working as a lawyer’s assistant he took up a drawing course (Essers 7). It was for curtain design but it seemed to be destiny for a lawyer’s assistant to take up such a

  • Henry Matisse's Madam Matisse: The Green Line

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    He was able to use the initial ideas created in the Fauve movement and advance them beyond what any other artist in the period had done previously or after. In fact, one might say that Matisse was the artist who ensured the lasting impression of Fauvism on artistic expression and that it would not be what it is today without his influence.

  • The Chapel of Vence: Art and Enlightenment

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    The Chapel of Vence: Art and Enlightenment Best known for his use of color, Henri Matisse cleverly cultivated his status as a modern artist using many different styles of painting from Impressionism to Fauvism. The artwork of Matisse has been a milestone in the history of painting. Henri Matisse’s self-proclaimed masterpiece, however, a chapel in Vence, France, is a small, minimalist building. The amalgamation of modern art and the sacred creates a unique spiritual experience in that it welcomes

  • Pablo Picasso's Head of a Woman

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    be different, but at the same time also beautiful. However, not everyone back in their time thought it was beautiful. In their works they both used women to show their different style. Picasso used the method of Cubism and Dufy used the method of Fauvism. They both wanted to show how they thought that a woman should look to portray their different visions. These two works of art are both very different because, Picasso made his woman dark and exaggerated and not so pleasing to the eye. Meanwhile Dufy

  • Henri Matisse:Goldfish

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    Henri Matisse: Goldfish Henri Emoile Matisse, born in 1869, is regarded as one of the “great formative figures in 20th-century art”, as well as the leader of the Fauve group. Fauvism is defined as “an early-20th-century movement in painting begun by a group of French artists and marked by the use of bold, often distorted forms and vivid colors.” Matisse was associated with this group due to his use of vivid colors, as well as his unusual style of presenting objects. Many critics at this time called

  • Pastoral Landscapes In Henri Matisse's The Joy Of Life

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    From 1905 to 1906 Henri Matisse completed the Le Bonheur de Vivre or The Joy of Life, one of the most famous works of fauvism, that demonstrated Matisse's want to change the common pastoral landscape found since antiquity by strong contour lines and fauvist colors. Matisse living through impressionism saw the need and desire for art to be pushed past the boundaries of the pre conceived notions of what was aesthetically pleasing, which had barely been change since the founding of art. In The Joy of

  • Traditional African Art: Pablo Picasso And Henri Matisse

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    Art is defined as works created by artists, including, but not limited to paintings, sculptures, etc., that are created to be beautiful or to express important ideas or feelings (Merriam Webster). As the late 1800’s and early 1900’s began to set in, African art started its migration from the land of its origin, into the settings of European and American art galleries and exhibits. Modern artists were drawn to African sculpture because of its sophisticated approach to the abstraction of the human

  • Madam Matisse- (the green line)

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    him for the rest of his life. After attending a few art classes and being influenced by various post-impressionists and impressionists such as Picasso and Van Gogh, Henri Matisse found his own individual style and became the founding ‘father’ of fauvism. The use of bright and bold colours within his paintings became possible by developments in paint and the newly available bright colours. This portrait was painted in Paris, 1905, during the modern period. Through this painting, Matisse attempts

  • Difference Between Impressionism And Post Impressionism

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    In early 19th century, the French government controlled the academies and salons of paintings. The impressionism took place in second half of 19th century, which was results of French artists rejecting the traditional government sanctioned academic painting that was dominating their arts at the time. The first independent art exhibition was held in 1874 for one month. Few of the famous artists’ who participated and help organize this exhibition was Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pierre-Auguste Renior

  • Henri Matisse And Vincent Van Gogh Analysis

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    Henri Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh were great artists that contributed to their art styles overwhelmingly. The first one, Matisse, was a French artist known his talented way of using color and his original style of draughtsman ship. He is primarily known as a painter, but also excelled in being a sculptor. Along the likes of Picasso and Duchamp, Matisse is known as one of the artists that helped to revolutionize plastic arts. During his lifetime, he was called by many as a Fauvre, but in his later

  • Van Gogh Influences

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    Hannah Singhurse Mrs. Kidwell English 9A 26 March 2014 Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world’s greatest and most well-known artists, but when he was alive he considered himself to be a complete failure. It was not until after he died that Van Gogh’s paintings received the recognition they deserved. Today he is thought to be the second best Dutch artist, after Rembrandt. Born in 1853, he was one of the biggest artistic influences of the 19th century. Vincent Van Gogh created a new

  • Gauguin Where Do We Come From What Are We Where Are We Going

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    Gauguin Where Do We Come From What Are We Where Are We Going -Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) -Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? -1897 -Oil on Canvas, 5 feet by 12 feet -Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, is the self-acclaimed masterpiece of Paul Gauguins’ career. It represents the culmination of his ideas and beliefs that he acquired throughout his life as a painter. Many visual characteristics of the painting, such as the

  • Purple Robe and Anemones

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    Purple Robe and Anemones Henri Matisse, the leader of the Fauvist movement and master of aesthetic order, was born in Le Cateau-Cambresis in northern France on December 31, 1869. The son of a middle-class family, he studied and began to practice law. In 1890, however, while recovering slowly from an attack of appendicitis, his mother bought him a paint set and he became intrigued by the practice of painting. In 1892, having given up his law career, he went to Paris to study art formally. His first

  • An Analysis Of On Wenlock Edge With The First Movement Of Ravel's String Quartet

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    Compare and contrast the songs of On Wenlock Edge with the first movement of Ravel's String Quartet Introduction: During the 19th century, France saw the birth and development of the art movement known as Impressionism. The term was initially coined when critic Louis Leroy commented on Claude Monet’s famous work, Impression, soleil levant ("Impression, Sunrise"), noting that the painting was simply an “impression”. Late during the 19th century, the term was applied to music, as music had become

  • Sonia Delaunay's Orphism Art Movement

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    Sonia Delaunay, who was born in November 14th ,1885 in Ukraine was an outstanding Russia-born Jewish painter. In the years before the explosion of World War I, she was regarded as an avant-garde abstract artist who confounded Orphism art movement. Delaunay was adopted by her mother’s brother Henri Terk, after she moved to St. Petersburg. Terk was an acknowledged, successful Jewish lawyer, therefore he was affluent enough to provide a privileged upbringing for Delaunay. During Delaunay’s young ages

  • The Life and Work of Artist, Paul Gauguin

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    The Life and Work of Artist, Paul Gauguin Somerset Maughm's A Moon and Sixpence is about a man, Charles Strickland, who gives up his good life, including a wife and two children and a secure job, to seek a life as a painter. The character Charles Strickland and the events surrounding his life are loosely based on the real painter Paul Gauguin. Because I found the events of Strickland's life so riveting, I felt compelled to discover more about the real person Strickland was based on. Paul Gauguin