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Article: Celebrating a century of untamed art.(THE HOME FORUM)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 20, 2005
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Byline: Christopher Andreae
Of all the labels attached to art movements, "Fauvism" is probably one of the least apt.
The French word "fauve" means "savage or wild beast." There is really nothing of this in the brilliantly colorful and jubilant paintings of the group of artists so identified in Paris in 1905 when their works were first exhibited publicly. It was Louis Vauxcelles, the art critic, who coined the word in his newspaper review of the Salon d'Automne in Paris. But he was, rather ambiguously, referring to the public who scorned the works by Matisse, Derain, and others of their ilk, as well as to the works themselves.
In fact, he ...