Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2014 Realism to Surrealism: European art and culture 1848-1936
Matisse and the Fauves
Lorraine Kypiotis
6/7 August 2014
Lecture summary:
The loosely shaped group of artists: Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Manguin, Marquet, Camoin and later Braque, known to history as the “Fauves” or Wild beasts, shared a similar approach to nature with no definitive program. The movement lasted effectively only a very short period of time - between 1904 and 1908, before the individual members moved on to other concerns – a short period but long enough to make a lasting difference to the path of avant-garde development in the early years of the 20th century.
Fauve paintings stood on the edge of abstraction. They negotiated new, unstable territory – they were they essentially flat, patterned surfaces but still "windows” onto the world. Fauve pictures thus stood at the border between pictorial illusion and the kind of "pure paint" that would become a preoccupation of Twentieth-century Modernism.
Slide list: 1. * Matisse, Femme au Chapeau, Oil on canvas. San Francisco Museum of Art 2. Derain, Vue de Collioure, 1905 3. Vlaminck, L’Etang de Saint Cucufa, 1905 4. Matisse, La Fenetre Ouverte, 1905 5. Manguin, La Sieste, 1905 6. Marque, Torso of a Baby, 1905
7. Matisse, The Green Stripe (La Raie Verte),1905. oil on canvas. Statens Museum, Copenhagen 8. Vlaminck, Banks of the Seine at Carrieres-sur-Seine, 1906. Oil on canvas. Private collection 9. Derain, Portrait of Henri Matisse, 1905. Oil on canvas. Tate 10. Matisse, Self Portrait in shirt sleeves, 1900. Oil on canvas. Private collection 11. Matisse, La Liseuse (Woman Reading)1894. Oil on canvas. Georges Pompidou. 12. Matisse, Woman reading in a Garden, 1902-03. Oil on Canvas. 13. Matisse, Marguerite reading, 1906
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14. Matisse, La Liseuse en Blanc et Jaune, 1919 (stolen 2012) 15. Matisse, Fruit and Coffee-Pot, c.1898. Oil on canvas. Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia 16. Matisse, Still Life with Oranges, 1898. Oil on canvas. Private Collection 17. Matisse, Luxe, Calme, Volupté, 1904. Oil on canvas. Musee d’Orsay 18. * Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905, Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 19. Matisse, Interior at Collioure, 1905. Oil on canvas. Private Collection 20. Matisse, Les Toits de Collioure (1905) 21. Matisse, Portrait of Andre Derain, 1905. Oil on canvas. Tate 22. Derain, Fishing Boats, Collioure, 1905. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan, NY 23. * Derain, Boats at Collioure, 1905. Oil on Canvas. Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany 24. Derain, La Rue Tournant, L’Estaque, 1906. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts Houston 25. Derain, The Bathers, 1907. Oil on canvas. MOMA, NY 26. Derain, The Bathers, 1908. Oil on canvas. Private Collection 27. Derain, Portrait of Vlaminck, 1905. Oil on canvas. 28. Vlaminck, Portrait of André Derain, 1906. Oil on cardboard. The Metropolitan, NY 29. Vlaminck, On the edge of the Seine, Chatou, c.1904-05.Oil on canvas. Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. 30. * Vlaminck, Landscape of the valley of the Seine, 1905. oil on canvas, MOMA, NY. 31. Camoin, Boats at Cassis, 1901. Oil on canvas. Private Collection 32. Camoin, Port of Marseilles, c.1904-6. Oil on Canvas. Private collection 33. Matisse, Portrait of Albert Marquet, 1906. Oil on panel. Nasjongalleriet, Oslo, Norway. 34. Marquet, The Port of Marseilles, 1904. Oil on canvas. Private Collection 35. Albert Marquet, Posters at Trouville, 1906. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 36. Braque, The Port of La Ciotat, 1907. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington. 37. Braque, Still Life: Le Jour, 1929. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 38. Matisse, Le Bonheur de Vivre (The Joy of Life) 1905-6. Oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 39. Matisse, La Danse, 1909-10. Oil on canvas.The Hermitage, St Petersburg 40. Matisse, Musique, 1909-10. Oil on canvas.The Hermitage, St Petersburg 41. Matisse, Nasturtiums with the Painting "Dance”, 1912. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan, NY.
References:
Gowing, Lawrence (1985) Matisse
Schroder, Klaus Albrecht, ed. (2014) Matisse and the Fauves
Images:
Matisse, Femme au Chapeau, oil on canvas. San Francisco Museum of Art
Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905, Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington
Derain, Boats at Collioure, 1905. Oil on Canvas. Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Germany
Vlaminck, Landscape of the valley of the Seine, 1905. oil on canvas, MOMA, NY.