Volume 38, Number 8 · April 25, 1991
Taming the Beasts
By Jack Flam
The Fauve Landscape: Matisse, Derain, Braque, and Their Circle, 1904-1908 October 4–December 30, 1990; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 19–May 5, 1991; and The Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 10–September 1, 1991
an exhibition at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
The Fauve Landscape
catalog of the exhibition by Judi Freeman, with contributions by Roger Benjamin, by James D. Herbert, by John Klein, by Alvin Martin
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Abbeville Press, 350 pp., $35.00 (paper)
In the standard histories of modern art, Fauvism is considered the first major twentieth-century movement. Around 1905, the story goes, following hard upon the innovations of the Post-impressionists, a group of young artists led by Henri Matisse began to revolutionize European painting and make it really modern by using brash color, bold brushwork, and loose drawing. The journalist Louis Vauxcelles, a somewhat skittish supporter of avant-garde painting, is supposed to have given the movement its name in his review of the 1905 Salon d'Automne, where he referred to these artists as fauves, or 'wild beasts.'[1]
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