The decorative,

the expressive

and the primitive

Histories of Fauvism- 1905 Salon d’ Automne

OWild beasts- les fauves

The idea of Barbarian, then, from untamed

became associated with

child-like or naive

Connection of artistic expressions

to the cult of Nietzsche and cult

of Naturism

Naturist movement- wild beasts was easily interchangeable with that of ‘barbarians’

Woman with a Hat (La femme au chapeau)

Child-like, colorful and very

bright

Le bonheur de vivre (The joy of Life)- gave traditional pastoral themes a modern edge

AFRICAN SOURCES

Vlaminck claimed to have been the first to discover ‘African Art’-three statuettes in a bistro around 1905

Western artists- not to distort and

misappropriate the original roles and

symbolic meanings of non-Western objects but because they had limited ethnological

knowledge or interests

Blue Nude (Souvenir de

Biskra)

Bulbous breasts and exaggerated shape of the buttocks- common features of African Statuettes- Confuses the theme of the painting

The theory of the decorative- To read it as a painted

surface- “Expression, for me, does not

reside in passions glowing on a human face or manifested by violent movement… everything has it’s share… In a picture every part will be visible and will play it’s appointed role, whether it be principal or secondary.”

Greenberg- decorative qualities must be combined with the paintings

1910-1920s- Decorative is enhanced by the decorative surface and figurative elements.