Tarnport on Nostr: George Rouault (1871-1958). Landscape, ~1950. Fauve is an interesting word in French. ...
George Rouault (1871-1958). Landscape, ~1950.
Fauve is an interesting word in French. In art "Fauvists" is generally translated as the wild beasts! Because they were wild and savage in their era. Today we reduce them to an intermediate step between Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, but at the time no one had done anything like their mad brushwork, devotion to feeling over realism, and division of colors. This later work by a Fauvist great speaks to me this winter morning.
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Fauve is an interesting word in French. In art "Fauvists" is generally translated as the wild beasts! Because they were wild and savage in their era. Today we reduce them to an intermediate step between Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, but at the time no one had done anything like their mad brushwork, devotion to feeling over realism, and division of colors. This later work by a Fauvist great speaks to me this winter morning.
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