Neo-Fauvism
Description
Neo-Fauvism was a poetic style of French painting from the mid-1920s proposed as a challenge to Surrealism.
The magazine Cahiers d'Art was launched in 1926 and its writers mounted a challenge to the Surrealist practice of automatism by seeing it not in terms of unconscious expression, but as another development of traditional artistry. They identified a group of artists as the exponents of this and termed them Neo-Fauves.
Although these artists were later mostly forgotten, the movement had an effect of disillusioning the Surrealist group with the technique of graphic automatism as a revolutionary means of by-passing conventional aesthetics, ideology and commercialism. Read more ↗
Key Artists
Georg Baselitz
Leading German painter whose late 1970s and 1980s Neue Wilde works revived the chromatic, expressive intensity of Fauvism against conceptualism.
Markus Lüpertz
Prominent German painter and sculptor whose neo-fauve and neo-expressionist palette emphasized gestural, high-impact brushwork.
Rainer Fetting
Major figure of the Berlin Neue Wilde painters known for non-naturalistic, high-keyed colors and vigorous figurative brush strokes.
Robert Combas
Co-founder of the French Figuration Libre movement, channeling bright, unmixed colors and wild, caricatural energy comparable to late-century Neo-Fauvism.
Peter Max
Iconic colorist whose high-chroma acrylic canvases in the 1970s and 1980s translated Fauvist color theory into contemporary popular imagery.
Famous Artworks
Fun Facts
While 'Neo-Fauvism' originally emerged in 1926 within the French magazine Cahiers d'Art as a short-lived figurative challenge to Surrealism, the term found renewed prominence in the late 1970s and 1980s describing the vibrant German 'Neue Wilde' (The New Fauves) and French 'Figuration Libre' painters.
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In Germany, the late 20th-century revival of high-intensity, non-naturalistic color and emotional brushwork was dubbed 'Die Neuen Wilden' - literally translating to 'The New Wild Beasts' or 'The New Fauves' - in direct homage to Henri Matisse's 1905 Fauve circle.
↗ Source: en.wikipedia.org