Matisse and Derain showed their work at the Salon de Automne in 1905, and at that salon, a critic Louis Vauxcelles was walking around looking at all the works when he saw a renaissance sculpture surrounded by the modern works of Matisse, Derain and their friends. Vaucelles was heard to remark “Donatello au milieu de fauves” meaning “Donatello among the wild beasts”

Like the Impressionists, the fauvists took the term a critic used to insult their work and transformed it’s meaning. They were considered to be wild because of their bold use of color. The fauvist style is a sort of extension of the post-impressionist movement further flattening the images, making things more abstract with bolder colors and more expressive, painterly styling.

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