Les Fauves (the wild beasts) was the nickname given in 1905 to a group of painters led by Henri Matisse. Today, their paintings are among the most popular of all twentieth-century art. Yet when Matisse and his friends — Derain, Vlaminck, Marquet, Dufy and Braque among them — first exhibited their work, the reaction of public and critics was astonishment and often hostility. Using strong, even strident, colors, applied in a manner deriving from Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, the Fauves took painting back to its basic principles, inspired by primitive art, popular prints and children's paintings, and paved the way to Cubism. The artists, their work, their relationships, their achievements and the critical and commercial response to their work are discussed in this absorbing book, the first in many years to offer a reappraisal of Fauvism.

Данные книги

Авторы

Whitfield Sarah

Серия

World of Art

Место издания

Лондон

Издательство

Thames & Hudson

Год

1996

Количество страниц

216 страниц

ISBN

0500202273

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709.040 Fau

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