Fauves

Doctrinaires it is because to me that name bears no disparaging implication and seems to indicate well enough what I take to be their one common characteristic: if I call those who, without giving outward sign (they may well have had their private speculations and systems) of an abstract theory, appeared to use distortion when, where, and as their immediate sensibility dictated, Fauves, that is because the word has passed into three languages, is admirably colourless -- for all its signifying a colour -- and implies the existence of a group without specifying a peculiarity.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

In that way, her work is akin to the Nabis and European Fauves, who were more interested in flat spaces and saturated colors than narratives or accurate depictions of nature.

Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Painter Stephanie Pryor in the Studio Yasmine Mohseni 2011

In that way, her work is akin to the Nabis and European Fauves, who were more interested in flat spaces and saturated colors than narratives or accurate depictions of nature.

Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Painter Stephanie Pryor in the Studio Yasmine Mohseni 2011

Parisian patricians were shocked, dubbing the group Fauves, or beasts.

A New Home for Arab Treasures Kelly Crow 2011

Early in his career, he was famous as a member of the Fauves and later exhibited with Die Brücke, the German Expressionist group.

Edward Goldman: The Three Most Delicious Art Exhibitions Around the World This October Edward Goldman 2010

In that way, her work is akin to the Nabis and European Fauves, who were more interested in flat spaces and saturated colors than narratives or accurate depictions of nature.

Yasmine Mohseni: Beyond the White Cube: Painter Stephanie Pryor in the Studio Yasmine Mohseni 2011

Some highlights have been the medieval village of Castelnou, Collioure, home of the Fauves, Port Vendres, a busy fishing village and the walled town of Elne with its cathedral and cloister.

Archive 2008-04-01 The Nag 2008

In 1907, he went to France, where he ­admired the work of Cézanne and Morisot and probably saw the notorious Salon d'Automne where Matisse and the Fauves announced radically new ways of constructing images with saturated color.

Keen Eye, Staccato Brush 2009

New York The French painter Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) combined the paint-handling of the Post-Impressionists with the high-keyed palette of the Nabis and the Fauves -- artists who concerned themselves with the poetic and expressive, rather than the naturalistic, functions of color.

The Violent Beauty of Color 2009

The Fauves painted people and objects with unnatural colors.

Masturbatory 2009