Fauvism

Question 1

Answer 1

Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905-1906

Fauvism: “wild beasts”- non-representational color/brushwork; nude couples frolicking in brightly colored, imaginative forest; colors meant to communicate light heartedness, jouissance

celebration of nude is not new, but challenges Renaissance notion of picture window and linear/aerial perspective- merging of foreground & background

also art continually freeing itself from mimetic responsibility