Fauvism In Henri Matisse's The Joy Of Life
Fauvism
Fauvism started as a loosely associated group of artists who used explosive colors to portray emotion. They were not constrained by the Realists color palette and used this new found freedom to explore and experiment with other styles, helping to cut a path to 20th Century Modernism. Fauvism respected expression on a individual basis. An artists’ emotional response to all things natural, or intuition were far more important than classical training or lofty subjects.
Another goal of the Fauvist painter was the removal of color as a representation of the real and allowing color to exist on the canvas as an independent element. More often than not, it was used to portray or evoke an emotion rather than represent the actual subject as it was found in nature. …show more content…
Matisse uses yellow to grab a viewers attention, and while it could be a descriptive color for a beach as the painting suggests, it was more likely used in the psychological sense. Brilliant hues of red take the place of the darker shadows tones and depth shadows usually found in a realistic depiction. Some of the grass elements are depicted in their right color while others are depicted in shades of blue and grey, suggesting that maybe the scene is an interpretation of what one would see at night. Notice too, the body of the figure playing the flutes is also in a lower value as compared to the to figures in the
Fauvism started as a loosely associated group of artists who used explosive colors to portray emotion. They were not constrained by the Realists color palette and used this new found freedom to explore and experiment with other styles, helping to cut a path to 20th Century Modernism. Fauvism respected expression on a individual basis. An artists’ emotional response to all things natural, or intuition were far more important than classical training or lofty subjects.
Another goal of the Fauvist painter was the removal of color as a representation of the real and allowing color to exist on the canvas as an independent element. More often than not, it was used to portray or evoke an emotion rather than represent the actual subject as it was found in nature. …show more content…
Matisse uses yellow to grab a viewers attention, and while it could be a descriptive color for a beach as the painting suggests, it was more likely used in the psychological sense. Brilliant hues of red take the place of the darker shadows tones and depth shadows usually found in a realistic depiction. Some of the grass elements are depicted in their right color while others are depicted in shades of blue and grey, suggesting that maybe the scene is an interpretation of what one would see at night. Notice too, the body of the figure playing the flutes is also in a lower value as compared to the to figures in the