Art & Exhibitions A New Show on Fauvism Is Challenging the Movement’s Reputation of Being a Boy’s Club by Shining a Light on Its Overlooked Women Members ...

Fauvism, which lasted from about 1904 to 1908, is the first and probably the shortest of Modernism’s art movements. It is also one of the messiest, populated by a shifting cast of painters and ...

The movement was also quite divisive: Its name comes from art critic Louis Vauxcelles, who disparagingly called its artists fauves (French for “wild beasts”) when they exhibited their work at ...

Artcore: Meet the ‘Wild Beasts’ of Early 20th-Century French Art. Inside Fauvism, the art movement born out of scandal. Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (1905–6).

Fauvism is an avant-garde artistic movement in which color plays a prominent role. Originating in Paris in 1905, its name derives from the French word for “wild beast”, and it was originally a ...

By 1908, the Fauvist movement had fizzled out, giving way to Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, and other avant-garde art movements. The show consists of more than 60 paintings, on loan from about 40 ...

An art movement of "Wild Beasts" had a woman problem in more ways than one, writes Deborah Nicholls-Lee. She almost always wore black, but in Woman with a Hat (1905) so many colours swirl around ...

Artistic movements such as Cubism, Fauvism and Expressionism ushered in the early decades of ... The Pop Art movement of the 1950s and ’60s utilized an aesthetic based on the mass-produced ...

Art lovers soon will descend upon the Grand Palais for Art Basel Paris. ... The nickname has stuck to that group of artists and extended to their important art-historical movement: Fauvism.