Fauvist artists used abstract shapes in saturated colors

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  • Fauvist artist Maurice de Vlaminck brought his use of bright colors, simple shapes, and free brush strokes to ceramics as well as canvases. Photo Credit: Fairfield Auction Cowles Syndicate Inc.
    Fauvist artist Maurice de Vlaminck brought his use of bright colors, simple shapes, and free brush strokes to ceramics as well as canvases. Photo Credit: Fairfield Auction Cowles Syndicate Inc.

    Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), born in Paris, was one of the painters who exhibited at the 1905 Salon d’Automne, considered the beginning of the Fauvism art movement. The name “Fauvism” came from a critic’s negative reaction to the exhibition, insulting the paintings on display as the work of “wild beasts” (“fauves” in French).

    Fauvism was characterized by the use of highly saturated color, abstr…