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Painters decided color should scream feelings instead of describing objects.

means An early-20th-century art movement that used wild, non-naturalistic color and bold brushwork to express emotion rather than depict reality accurately.

from From French 'fauve,' meaning 'wild beast.' A critic, confronted with the group's violently clashing colors at a 1905 Paris exhibition, reportedly looked at a classical-style sculpture sitting among their canvases and exclaimed something like 'Donatello among the wild beasts' — and the mocking label 'Fauves' stuck, eventually worn as a badge rather than an insult.

name origin
critics called them wild beasts, fauves, as insult
key figures
matisse and derain led the uprising
lifespan
barely lasted three years, 1905 to 1908
legacy
paved the way straight into expressionism and abstraction
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