Fauvism, a short-lived movement of early Modernist art
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Les Fauves (French for wild beasts), a short-lived and loose grouping of early Modern artists, emphasized painterly qualities, and the use of deep color, over the representational values retained by Impressionism even with its focus on light and the moment.Critics also use the word Fauve to explain someone or an artist.
One of the fundamentals of the Fauves was expressed in 1888 by Paul Gauguin to Paul Sérusier,
In French, "Fauves" means "wild beasts".The painter Gustave Moreau was the movement's inspirational teacher, and a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris who pushed his students to think outside of the lines of formality and to follow their visions.
The name 'Fauves' caught on, becoming a term of abuse - although it had not been intended as such - and the furore that followed made the artists famous.
Fauve artists experimented with the relationship of colours to each other, applying pure, unblended colour straight from the tube so that colour mixing was achieved by the eye of the viewer and not on the palette.
Fauve painting, standing as it did on the threshold of two centuries, unlocked the door between representation or pictorial illusion and abstraction or art for art's sake - "not everything, but the foundation of everything" as Matisse believed.
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