art history fauvism photobook

NAME: NABILA BINTI OMAR
CLASS:DRG1B

MATRIX NUMBER: 19DRG21F2018
SUBJECT: DVF10012 ART & DESIGN
LECTURE NAME: MR MUHAMMAD FIKRI BIN

ABDUL RAHMAN

FAUVISM

INTRODUCTION

Fauvism is the style of Les Fauve. It is from
French ''wild beast''. Fauvism, the first 20th-
century movement in modern art. Fauvism was
produced by a group of early 20th-century
modern artist. Which included Henri Matisse and
André Derain.Fauvism was created from around
1905 to 1910. Fauvism was initially inspired by
the examples of Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin,
Georges Seurat, and Paul Cézanne. Which is
characterised by strong colours and fierce
brushwork.

André Derain André Derain
(10 June 1880 – 8 September
was a French artist, painter,

1954) sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism
with Henri Matisse. He was born in
10 June 1880 Chatou, Yvelines,
Île-de-France, France.He died
8 September 1954 (aged 74)
Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-
France, France. In 1898, while
stud
ying to be an engineer at the
Académie Camillo, he attended
painting classes under Eugène
Carrière, and there met Matisse.

Matisse persuaded Derain's parents to allow him to
abandon his engineering career and devote himself
solely to painting. Since that, he was known for painting
and sculpture.

HIS ARTWORK

André Derain, 1905, Le séchage The Drying Sails was
des voiles (The Drying Sails) one of the paintings by
Andre Derain exhibited
at the Autumn Salon of
1905 in Paris and
became the standard
of a new art movement
called Fauvism. It was
painted in the summer
of 1905 whole Derain
was with Matisse.

The rippling water effect was
achieved by using short,

choppy brush strokes. The
distant buildings and

landscape were painted
employing smooth, soft lines
in order to create a contrast

with the close, sharp
contours in the foreground.

André Derain, 1906, Charing
Cross Bridge, London

‘Charing Cross Bridge’ remains one of Derain’s most
popular paintings. Andre Derain painted ‘Charing Cross
Bridge’ during his brief stay of two months in London,
England, in the winter of 1906. The painting depicts a
scene from the south shores of the river Thames, as the
artist observed it while standing on a wharf near the
Lion’s Brewery, which is the blue building on the far left.

Derain painted fifteen
canvases over the
course of his stay in

L’Estaque, all of which
are marked by their
vibrant colours and
energetic brushstrokes.

André Derain, 1906, La jetée à
L'Estaque,

The present work, completed during the summer of 1906 at
L’Estaque, a small port on the Mediterranean coast, is one of
Derain’s most accomplished Fauvist landscapes.The L’Estaque
series is characterised by a departure from realistic
representation and a desire to infuse the landscapes with a
feeling of ideal and harmonious isolation. La jetée à L’Estaque
depicts a series of boats alongside a harbour jetty bleached by
the extraordinary sunlight of the South of France.

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 He was a French artist, known
December 1869 – 3 November 1954) for both his use of colour and
his fluid and original
He was known for draughtsmanship. The intense
Painting colourism of the works he
painted between 1900 and
printmaking 1905 brought him notoriety as
sculpture one of the Fauves (wild
drawing beasts).He was born Henri
collage Émile Benoît Matisse 31

December 1869
Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France.
He Died on 3 November 1954
(aged 84) Nice, France.

Woman with a Hat is a

painting by Henri

Matisse. It was at the

center of the

controversy that led to

the christening of the

first modern art

movement of the

twentieth century -

Woman with a Hat (Femme au Fauvism. The term fauve
chapeau), 1905 by Henri Matisse ("wild beast")




The artist's wife, Amélie, posed for this half-length portrait.

She is depicted in an elaborate outfit with classic attributes
of the French bourgeoisie: a gloved arm holding a fan and
an elaborate hat perched atop her head.

Dance (La Danse) is a painting made by
Henri Matisse in 1910

Amongst Henri Matisse’s most famous works, Dance is an
ode to life, joy, physical abandonment, and has become

an emblem of modern art. The artwork was
commissioned with its matching painting Music by the
influential Russian collector Sergei Shchukin in 1909 for

decorating his mansion

L'Atelier (Rouge The Red Studio),
is a painting by Henri Matisse

This work depicts Matisse's
atelier (studio) that he had
built for himself in 1909,
entirely awash in one tone

of vibrant, rusty red.

Robert Delaunay (12 April 1885 – 25
October 1941)

He was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia
Delaunay and others, co-founded the Orphism art
movement, noted for its use of strong colours and
geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract.
Born Robert-Victor-Felix Delaunay 12 April 1885
Paris, France. He died on 25 October 1941 (aged 56)
Montpellier, France

When Robert Delaunay first
started painting, he applied
dots of color that resembled a
mosaic. This technique was
known as divisionism. His early

works from 1906 were
characterized by the systematic

use of circular shapes in flat
colors

L’Homme à la tulipe Portrait de Jean
Metzinger by Robert Delaunay

Simultaneous Windows by
Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay, along with his wife Sonia, founded the Orphism
movement. It was a subcategory of Cubism with components of
Fauvism, which was developed in Paris between 1912 and 1914.
The characteristics of the Orphism movement include brightly

colored works, faceted compositions, color contrasts, and an
abstract approach to the subject matter.

Red Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay, 1911
Eiffel Tower by Robert Delaunay, 1926




Between 1909 and 1912, Robert Delaunay began producing a series
of the Eiffel Tower paintings which established him in the artistic

world. In these paintings, Delaunay demonstrated his love for Paris,
while also introducing people to Orphism in its most pure expression.

The Eiffel Tower became a major motif for artists in recognition
of the major role that technological development and innovation

had in the first part of the 20th century.