Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | ND 548.5 .F3 W5 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 620252 |
ND 547.5 .I4 W54 1990 The impressionists / | ND 548.5 .C82 C68 1998 Cubism / | ND 548.5 .F3 F74 1995 Fauves / | ND 548.5 .F3 W5 1996 Fauvism / | ND 553 .B23 L4913 1982 Balthus / | ND 553 .B65 B45 1994 Bonnard / | ND 553 .B65 H96 1998 Bonnard / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-207) and index.
Les Fauves (the wild beasts) was the nickname given in 1905 to a group of painters led by Henri Matisse. Today, their paintings are among the most popular of all twentieth-century art. Yet when Matisse and his friends - Derain, Vlaminck, Marquet, Dufy and Braque among them - first exhibited their work, the reaction of public and critics was astonishment and often hostility. Using strong, even strident, colors, applied in a manner deriving from Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh, the Fauves took painting back to its basic principles, inspired by primitive art, popular prints and children's paintings, and paved the way to Cubism. The artists, their work, their relationships, their achievements and the critical and commercial response to their work are discussed in this absorbing book, the first in many years to offer a reappraisal of Fauvism.
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