The Fundación Mapfre, presented today the exhibition “The Fauves. The passion for color”, which brings together some 150 works of the highest representatives of the considered the first artistic avant-garde of the TWENTIETH century.
The exhibition, which includes paintings, drawings, watercolors, and ceramics can be seen until 29 January 2017, and shows the evolution of these artists who were baptized as “wild beasts” (fauves in French) for its impact on the public and the critics.
The movement was led by Henri Matisse, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, was characterized by the different treatment of the color in a more free way, at once provocative and energetic and had its boom between 1904 and 1908.
The exhibition also includes works by Georges Braque, Kees van Dongen, Henri Manguin, Raoul Dufy, Albert Marquet, Emile Othon Firesz, and Charles Camoin.
In October of 1905 caused a lot of buzz with his work exhibited in Autumn Salon in the Grand Palais in Paris, and the art critic Louis Vauxcelles were dubbed “wild beasts” by the intense use of colors.
In the sample from the Mapfre Foundation in this capital, will include works from the formative phase of some of them, and highlights some of the portraits between them, the step to shade more intense, the works done after the Autumn Salon and the subsequent path taken by every one.
the works in the exhibition are from 80 institutional loans of different countries and 30 private collectors.
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