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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