fauves

Around 1905, having renounced Impressionism, he united intense colors with powerful expression: this marked the birth of Fauvism, named so by a critic who called Matisse and his fellow artists "fauves", or "wild beasts".

Art Knowledge News 2009

Now you could view this mass gathering of almost 200 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures as resounding proof of Gauguin as the pioneer modernist, his statuesque Tahitians forefathers to Picasso's early figures, his tendrils and curlicues twining their way through Matisse, his wild and dissonant colours a palette for the fauves.

Gauguin: Maker of Myth Laura Cumming 2010

This pattern of 10 to 15, or even 20, years has been more or less repeated ever since: with the fauves, the surrealists, and so on.

Thoroughly Modern, Really 2008

But Matisse had a 12-year head start; when he and Picasso first met at Gertrude Stein's apartment in 1906, Matisse was the leader of the most avant-garde artists in Paris, the fauves, or "wild beasts."

Friendship And Rivalry 2007

A host of artists, including Georges Braque and Andre Derain, defected from the fauves to the cubists.

Friendship And Rivalry 2007

And speaking of fauves, the National Gallery's feature exhibition, "Hungarian Fauves From Paris to Nagybánya, 1904-1914" gives you a great chance (through July 30) to compare directly the likes of Róbert Berény and Géza Bornemisza with Matisse, Dufy and Vlaminck.

East of the Louvre 2007

Bittinger (who also painted that Parsons portrait) studied with the fauves at the Academie Julien in Paris, and Navy combat artist Standish Backus was aligned with the "California abstractionists" watercolor movement.

Viewing The Unthinkable 2007

We are with Antonio Pollajuolo, as a painter one of the principal of the Florentine 'fauves,' dead set on the strains and stresses of anatomical working at rest and in movement and conflict. '

A Revolutionary Artist Pope-Hennessy, John 1979

In this time of anarchy in art, when all he had to do to conciliate the hostile critics was to array himself with the _fauves_, Massenet set an example of impeccable writing.

Musical Memories Camille Saint-Sa��ns 1878

Paris, where he perfected a style that blended Soutine's meaty layers of palpable pigment with the barbarous colour of the fauves.

Slate Magazine Ariella Budick 2011