If Fauvism was a loud dinner party where everyone showed up wearing colors that should not legally coexist, Emilie Charmy walked in, kicked a chair backward, sat down like a movie villain, and started painting anyway. She did not arrive to be “the woman version” of anything. She arrived to make work so confident and … Read more
If Fauvism had a group chat, Charles Camoin would be the one sending pictures of sunlit harbors and saying, “No filter.” And then everyone else would reply, “That’s not a filter, that’s YOU using orange like it owes you money.” Camoin sits in a funny sweet spot in art history: he’s part of the original … Read more
If Fauvism is the art-world equivalent of turning the saturation slider up until your monitor begs for mercy, Othon Friesz is the guy who helped crank it… and then later decided, Actually, I would like my brushstrokes to have indoor voices sometimes. He is Episode 42 in our artist series, and he is proof that … Read more
If Fauvism had a “good vibes only” department, Raoul Dufy would have been the manager, the assistant manager, and the guy handing out complimentary lemonade at the door. Dufy shows up in art history right when painters are arguing (again) about what painting is “supposed” to do. Some artists are wrestling with the universe. Some … Read more
If Fauvism is the art world screaming, “TURN THE SATURATION UP, COWARDS,” then Kees van Dongen is the guy in the corner going, “Cool. Now make the eyes bigger. Bigger. BIGGER.” He was born in the Netherlands, moved to Paris, got tangled up in the avant-garde, and then proceeded to paint his way through bohemian … Read more
Maurice de Vlaminck sounds like a man who should either be dueling at sunrise or dramatically removing gloves before declaring, “Sir, your brushwork offends me.” And honestly? He kind of was. Vlaminck was one of the headline troublemakers of Fauvism, the early-1900s moment when a group of painters looked at reality, shrugged, and said, “What … Read more
Andre Derain is one of those artists who makes you suspect the early 1900s were basically a long-running group chat called “What if we just… ignored reality?” And then everyone replied with: “Bet.” He was French, born in 1880, and he helped kick off Fauvism right alongside Henri Matisse which is essentially the art movement … Read more
Meet Henri: The Law Clerk Who Rage-Quit His Day Job Henri Émile Benoît Matisse did not start life as the crowned prince of color. He started as… a law clerk. In northern France. In the 1880s. Which is about as exciting as it sounds. He dutifully studied law in Paris, went back home, and spent his … Read more
November strolled in like it had a clipboard, a half-finished latte, and a firm intention to grade everything I did on a curve. Every platform shifted in its own dramatic way, and the numbers — those tiny digital breadcrumbs of joy, confusion, and occasionally panic — told a story rich with contrast. So let’s unpack it all, with the … Read more
So here we are, floating into Episode 4 with Marc Chagall — the poetic dervish of color, quotation marks and uncanny dreamscapes where saints and fiddlers and goats all seem to hover like metaphors you can actually touch. If Surrealism is the party, Chagall is the guy juggling plates while reciting a wistful poem in three languages — and … Read more