Neo-Fauvism

Neo-Fauvism was a poetic style of French painting from the mid-1920s proposed as a challenge to Surrealism. ^[1]

The magazine Cahiers d'Art was launched in 1926 and its writers mounted a challenge to the Surrealist practice of automatism by seeing it not in terms of unconscious expression, but as another development of traditional artistry. They identified a group of artists as the exponents of this and termed them Neo-Fauves. ^[1]

Although these artists were later mostly forgotten, the movement had an effect of disillusioning the Surrealist group with the technique of graphic automatism as a revolutionary means of by-passing conventional aesthetics, ideology and commercialism. ^[1]

Neo-Fauvism has been seen as the last trend within painting that could be marketed as a coherent style. ^[2]

References

1. Grant, Kim. Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception, Introduction. Cambridge University Press 2005. ISBN   978-0-521-83655-5, ISBN   0-521-83655-7.
2. Goethe-Institut, retrieved 10 June 2008. Archived August 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

See also

• Art history
• Visual Arts and Design
• History of Painting
• Western painting
• Fauvism