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| Henri Matisse The Roofs of Collioure (1905) The Hermitage, St Petersburg |
Influential French art critic Louis Vauxcelles (1870-1945) coined the terms Fauvism (1905), and Cubism (1908).
The Fauves included Matisse, Derain, Marquet, Rouault, Vlaminck, and the Dutch-born artist van Dongen. After visiting the Fauves influential first show at the Salon d'Automne 1905 Vauxcelles is reported to have pointed to a Renaissance-like sculpture in the middle of the same gallery and exclaimed: ‘Donatello au milieu des fauves!’ (‘Donatello among the wild beasts’). His comment was printed on 17 October 1905 in daily newspaper Gil Blas, and passed into popular usage.
What is not as widely known is that Henri Rousseau’s large jungle scene The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope was exhibited near Matisse’s work and may have had an influence on the pejorative used.
Vauxcelles first used the term Cubism in 1908 after seeing a picture by Braque. He described Braque’s work as bizarre cubiques and said, “M. Braque scorns form and reduces everything, sites, figures and houses, to geometric schemas and cubes.”
Vauxcelles first used the term Cubism in 1908 after seeing a picture by Braque. He described Braque’s work as bizarre cubiques and said, “M. Braque scorns form and reduces everything, sites, figures and houses, to geometric schemas and cubes.”
The term Cubism, quickly gained use, although the two creators of the new style, Braque and Picasso, did not initially adopt it.
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