ART MOVEMENTS DURING

20 TH 21 ST CENTURY
Fauvism and Neo Impressionism

ART FORMS in
the 20th
Century

FAUVISM

It is the style ofles Fauves(Frenchfor

"the wild beasts"), a short-lived and loose
group of early twentieth-centuryModern
artists

Their works emphasizepainterlyqualities

and strong color over therepresentational
orrealisticvalues retained
byImpressionism.

Uses wild brush work and strident colors,

while their subject matter had a high
degree of simplification andabstraction

NEO-IMPRESSIONISM

Neo-impressionismwas coined by
French art criticFlix Fnonin 1886 to
describe anart movementfounded
byGeorges Seurat.

Followers of neo-impressionism, in
particular, were drawn to modern urban
scenes as well as landscapes and
seashores.

Science-based interpretation of lines and

colors influenced neo-impressionists
characterization of their
owncontemporary art.

Thank You!

HENRI MATISSE

Henri-mile-Benot Matisse wasborn on

December 31 1869 November 3 1954 in
Nord, France, the oldest son of a prosperous
grain merchant

He was a French artist, known for his use of

color and his fluid and original draughtsman
ship.

His mastery of the expressive language of

color and drawing, displayed in a body of
work spanning over a half-century, won him
recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

Self-portrait in a
Striped T-shirt

MATISSES ARTWORKS

Young
Sailor

Madras
Rouge

Vase, Bottle
and Fruit

ANDR DERAIN

Andr Derain(10 June 1880 8 September

1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor
and co-founder ofFauvismwithHenri
Matisse.

The vivid, unnatural colors led the criticLouis

Vauxcelles to derisively dub their works
asles Fauves, or "the wild beasts", marking
the start of theFauvistmovement.

With bold colors and compositions, Derain

painted multiple pictures of
theThamesandTower Bridge.

Portrait of a Girl in
Black

DERAINS ARTWORKS

Thames and
Tower Bridge

Landscape in
Provence

Charing Cross
Bridge, London

GEORGES SEURAT

Georges Pierre Seuratwas born on

December 2 1859March 29 1891 and
aFrenchPostImpressionistpainteranddraftsman.

He is noted for his innovative use of drawing

media and for devising a technique of
painting known as pointillism.

His large-scale workA Sunday Afternoon on

the Island of La Grande Jatte (18841886)
altered the direction ofmodern artby
initiatingNeo-impressionism.

Seurat
La
Tour took to heart
notion of a scientific
Eiffel

the color theorists'

approach to painting.

SEURATS ARTWORKS

Bathers at Asnires

Les Terrassiers

PAUL SIGNAC

Paul Signac (11 November 1863 15 August

1935) was aFrenchneo-impressionist
painterwho, working withGeorges Seurat, helped
develop thepointillist style.

Under his (Seurat) influence he abandoned the

short brushstrokes of impressionismto
experiment with scientifically juxtaposed small
dots of pure color, intended to combine and blend
not on the canvas but in the viewer's eye, the
defining feature of pointillism.

Many of Signac's paintings are of the French

coast.
Women at the
Well

SIGNACS ARTWORKS

The Jetty at Cassis

The Port of
Saint-Tropez