Fauvism, described & explained in short text-quotes + images - free resource, French art history

Fauvism and the Fauve artists, described and explained in short text-quotes + art images - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

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These selected text-quotes on French Fauvism are taken from the Dutch famous art-critic Jacob Bendien, a contemporary of Fauvism. His selected quotes here reveal in short the meaning, goals, art-characteristics and early history of Fauvism and the Fauve artists in France.

The Fauves loved to use ‘firm color in forms’ in their painting art. Fauvism was a rejection of the ‘broken-colors’ of Impressionism, but it was also firmly in contrast to starting French Cubism which wanted to reduce colors in its color-strength.
Henri Matisse was the leading artist of Fauvism; other famous Fauvist artists were a. o. De Vlaeminck, Derain and Marquet. You can find them all on Wikiquote, in their quotes.
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Some selected text-quotes on French Fauvism, by Jacob Bendien - as a short introduction of his extended quotes, in the PDF:

• ’Fauvism is the first movement that takes the main focus of the picture to the painting itself, to the play of lines and colors, and is therefore one of the pioneering movements of the modern art of painting.'

• ’Matisse (who initiated Fauvism) even goes so far as to say: ‘When looking at a painting one should forget what it is supposed to be.’

• ’Fauvism is the continuation of Impressionism. The light freedom and happiness that we find so often in Impressionistic art, we can also find in Fauvism, but then even more so. These characteristics are strongly undervalued by Expressionism and Cubism.'

• The serious Expressionism only sees (in Fauvist art) - and not entirely without ground - a lack of seriousness, and the strict Cubism sees indiscipline.'
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  selection of free art-resources on the French art-movement Fauvism / Fauves:

• extended description of Fauvism and artists, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauvism

• selected artist-quotes on Fauvism, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fauvism

• art-images of Color Field Painting, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/paintings-by-style/fauvism
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  editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]
  translation from Dutch, Anne Porcelijn: [http://www.anneporcelijn.nl]