Word: fauvism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painting by Kandinsky, the Russian-born dean of the non-objectives school, provide an interesting guide to his development from a Fauvism that already tended towards abstraction to his eventual creation of abstract works in the most cerebral and calculating of styles. Kandinsky's early work, swirling with pure color and vivid with strong brushwork, strikes me as his most successful. When he paints flat colors enclosed in rigid outlines floating against a monochromatic background, them my dissatisfaction with the picture equals his lack of attachment to its content...
Beastly Riot. There was plenty to celebrate. The Salon d'Automne was the first Paris salon to stage a retrospective exhibition, devoting a whole room to the works of Cezanne. In 1905 the Salon got what it needed to become a popular fixture: a first-class scandal. Fauvism, expressed in the wildly colored canvases of les fauves (the wild beasts, e.g., Matisse, Marquet, Derain and Vlaminck), caused an artistic riot. Respectable gentlemen insulted each other, shook their ivory-capped canes at the canvases. Raged one critic: "A pot of paint has been thrown in the face of the public...