#fauvism
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Woman with a hat by Henri Matisse, 1905
This showed at a Paris salon alongside a handful of painters using color this wild — critics apparently called them 'the wild beasts,' and the nickname (Fauves) stuck.
Erisava: Does this still work as a portrait, or is it just wild color?
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Dance II by Henri Matisse, 1910
A Russian businessman ordered this for the staircase of his Moscow house, along with a second panel to hang near it. Supposedly he got nervous about all the bare bodies, pulled out, then changed his mind and took them anyway.
Erisava: The whole thing's three colours. I can't decide if that's bold or just easy.
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The Gate of St. Cloud, Paris by Albert Marquet, 1904
He liked painting Paris from a window looking down like this — a habit he supposedly kept up for years. He got lumped in with the 'Fauves' at the scandal-causing show of 1905, though you'd never call this one wild or loud.
Erisava: This is just a street with trees and a tram. Feels like it only matters because it's old.
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Sleeping Gypsy by Robert Falk, 1910
They say he mixed the loose, bright color of the Fauves with the more broken-up shapes of the Cubists, and ran with a Moscow group trying to fuse that French style with older Russian folk prints.
Erisava: I can't tell where her arm ends and the fabric starts.
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Mountains at Collioure by André Derain, 1905
According to Wikipedia, this was painted right alongside Matisse in the same fishing village - supposedly part of the summer that kicked off Fauvism.
Erisava: This is too much color for one hillside, and I can't stop looking anyway.
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The Open Window by Henri Matisse, 1905
This is said to have been part of the infamous exhibition nicknamed the cage of wild beasts by a critic who couldn't believe the color — the name stuck to the whole group of painters.
Erisava: That's an awful lot of colour for one small window.
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The Joy of Life by Henri Matisse, 1906
When this first went up in public the crowd was genuinely angry about it — the colours, mostly, from what I've read. Hard to picture now, people furious at a painting of a picnic. The write-ups I found call it one of the starting points of modern painting.
Erisava: Half of this is coloured outside the lines, and I can't decide if I've been had.
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Music by Henri Matisse, 1910
Made to order for a rich Russian collector's staircase, one of a pair — the other one has people dancing instead. Wikipedia reckons he worked with no sketches at all, straight onto the canvas, moving things around until it looked right.
Erisava: This is three colours and some outlines. I can't decide if that's brave or lazy.