1904, Henri Matisse, Street in Arcueil -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: Matisse was the mouthpiece of the group of the Fauves, the "wild beasts". This was the nickname given to Matisse and his friends Derain, Vlaminck, and Dufy on the occasion of their first exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905. The Fauvists radically emancipated their painting from the principle of the simulation of nature. They renounced local colours and a constructed illusion of space. Instead, they arrived at an unprecedented colouristic saturation and brilliance. The abandonment of chiaroscuro modelling augmented the new aesthetic homogeneity of colour spaces. For the first time in the history of painting, the focus was entirely on colour, which was now considered an individual means of expression.
1904, Henri Matisse, Street in Arcueil -- Albertina (Vienna)
From the museum label: Matisse was the mouthpiece of the group of the Fauves, the "wild beasts". This was the nickname given to Matisse and his friends Derain, Vlaminck, and Dufy on the occasion of their first exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1905. The Fauvists radically emancipated their painting from the principle of the simulation of nature. They renounced local colours and a constructed illusion of space. Instead, they arrived at an unprecedented colouristic saturation and brilliance. The abandonment of chiaroscuro modelling augmented the new aesthetic homogeneity of colour spaces. For the first time in the history of painting, the focus was entirely on colour, which was now considered an individual means of expression.