Fauvism

A Spanish (Catalan) painter and sculptor, whose work had a huge impact on the entire generation of modern artists. Joan Miro's paintings are the earliest surrealistic works. They served as the basis for the further formation and development of the style that is extremely popular to this day.Joan Miro tried his hand in various modernist and avant-garde styles of European painting, but never stopped on one of them completely, constantly improving and enriching his artistic method, experimenting with different painting techniques and methods. The result of these experiments was his painting style based on surrealism. This is what allowed the artist to rethink the basic principles of fine art in accordance with his original vision of the surrounding reality.The unique world of Joan Miró is full of unique images and symbols. They are presented in the form of pure plastic signs located in an empty space; they are not completely abstract but rather resemble naive art or drawings of children. Miro’s paintings consist of geometric, right or wrong figures, a dance of twisting lines and small details that have mystical meaning and create an indescribable atmosphere of each work.

An English innovative artist, painter and graphic artist, a book illustrator. Jessica Dismorr was one of two women who became active members of the Vorticist movement and signed their Manifesto in 1914. Dismorr's fame is based on her status as an artist - a prominent representative of the early British avant-garde.Beginning as a Fauvist, Jessica worked a lot as a co-editor of the Blast magazine, which was aggressive towards Academism; in that magazine, she published her artwork, prose and poetry. Later, she created a recognizable form of geometric abstraction, which required not only talent, but also courage.Art historian H. Wilensky commented on her role as “the courage to overcome discrimination against female artists in England” and emphasized the importance of her work as “the most typical for artistic experiments of the time”. Due to the claims of W. Lewis (“this is what I personally did and said in a certain period”), it is not surprising that Dismorr was almost invisible in the history of modernism for quite a long time. However, a research conducted in the 1960s and an ongoing research, as well as major exhibitions, pay tribute to this artist and the second Vorticist, Helena Saunders.

A Russian avant-garde artist, painter and graphic artist, a stage designer, who worked in Paris for many years. In the history of Russian art, the name of N.S. Goncharova is closely associated with the name of M. Larionov: they worked together for 60 years, first in Russia, then in Paris. Unusually talented creators, collaborating, helped one another to establish their individuality.The artist called the Amazon of the avant-garde, a member of the Jack of Diamonds and Blue Horseman groups, a Futurist and Cubist painter, was a bold innovator in painting, a brilliant decorator that till now impresses art lovers with a rare variety of her great artistic talent.The so-called «Russian style» never existed in professional fine art before Goncharova's «Rooster». Inheriting the traditions of lubok art and using folk ideas about religion, the folklore of Egypt and her favourite Scythia, she, undoubtedly, combined all into a single harmonious style.

A Russian artist, an illegitimate son of famous landscape painter-wanderer Alexei Savrasov. Alexey Morgunov was at the center of the creative events and artistic ideas of the Russian avant-garde in the first two and a half decades of the 20th century, but subsequently completely abandoned it.The artist was an active member and exhibitor of the Moscow Association of Artists, Youth Union, Jack of Diamonds, became a participant in such landmark exhibitions as Tram V, Shop (Petrograd), Moscow Salon, and The World of Art, Fifth State Exhibition of Paintings in Moscow, etc.Morgunov was a close friend of Malevich. Together they invented different shocking events for Futurists. He was a regular at Kracht's salon of intellectuals; was fond of the theories of M. Larionov and N. Goncharova, working both in neo-primitivistic and cubo-futuristic manners. In terms of style of his early and late creative periods, he was the closest to French Fauvism.As a professor of painting, he taught at the State Free Workshops and was a member of the Objective Analysis group at the Institute of Artistic Culture. In the last decade of his creative career, moving away from the avant-garde, he created thematic paintings that are close to the style and meet the spirit of socialist realism.

A Ukrainian artist and poet, publisher, critic, who worked in Russia, Japan and America. One of the founders of the Russian and Ukrainian avant-garde traditionally referred to as the "father of Russian Futurism".He was an initiator of revolutionary ideas, which united many famous people (Lentulov and Exter, Bogomazov and Palmov, poets Mayakovsky and Kamensky, Kruchyonykh and Khlebnikov, Aseev and Guro), as well as the creator of the group "Gilea" - the first literary and artistic union of the Futurists. He was a member and organizer of innovative groups “Stefanos Wreath”, “Jack of Diamonds”, a member of the Moscow Youth Union and the Munich Blue Horseman.The master was the first in Bashkortostan to create images of the indigenous population, the first to transfer avant-garde to the land of Japan.The artist’s museum was created in Brooklyn (New York, the USA); the American International Zaumi Academy annually presents the prize “International Mark of D. Burliuk".

An outstanding Hungarian painter and graphic artist, publicist and art theorist. Janos Kmetti was the first Cubist in his country and an influential teacher that educated a whole generation of young artists. Studying at the world-famous Julian Academy in Paris, he adopted the most advanced artistic traditions of Europe and enriched the art of Hungary with new avant-garde movements and painting methods. The career of the artist is tightly connected with the literary and artistic association Tett (Action), headed by Lajos Kassák. Together with a few associates, he was one of the founders of the New Society of Artists and its vice chairman in 1924. Kmetty also took an active part in the life of the art colony of Nagybánya and Szentendre and showed his works at collective exhibitions of Hungarian avant-garde artists both at home and abroad. In 1949, the artist was awarded the National Kossuth Prize - the honorary state award of Hungary; his autobiographical and theoretical works are important sources of information for art historians.

A German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, a representative and theorist of the first in Germany association of expressionist "Bridge" ("Die Brücke", Dresden-Berlin), a participant in the "New Secession".639 works of the artist were removed from the galleries and museums of Germany being ranked as “degenerative art”. 25 of them were included in the exhibition of “degenerates”; hundreds of works were destroyed by the Nazis. The E. Kirchner Museum was opened in 1992 near Davos, where the artist lived for over 20 years; there is a collection of more than 1,400 paintings by the famous Expressionist.

Martiros Sergeevich (Sarkisovich) Saryan was a Russian and Armenian landscape painter, graphic artist and theater artist.He was born into an Armenian patriarchal family. In 1897-1904, he passed a course at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.An active participant in the exhibitions of “Blue rose”, The Union of Russian artists, “The World of art”, the magazine “Gold Fleece", the association "Four Arts". The founder of the Academy of Arts in Armenia had a title of academician, People’s Artist of the USSR, Hero of social labor, was awarded state prizes. The creativity and activity of M. S. Saryan played a leading role in the formation of the national Armenian school of painting. The House-Museum of Martiros Saryan was opened in Yerevan.“Nature creates a man, in order to look at itself with its eyes, to enjoy its amazing beauty,” - said the artist about creativity.

A Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist and book illustrator, master of stage set and stage costume.He was born into a family of Peter Petrovich Konchalovsky, a hereditary nobleman, a writer, translator and publisher. In the 1890's, he studied at the Kharkov Art School, visited the evening classes of the Imperial Stroganov School of Art and Industry. After that, he studied at the private academy of Julian in Paris.Peter Petrovich Konchalovsky was one of the founders and active participants of the art association "Knave of Diamonds" and its chairman from 1911. He was also a member of the progressive art associations "Union of Youth" (since 1911), "The World of Art" (with interruptions until 1922), "Genesis" (in 1926-1927). He was an academician and full member of the Academy of Arts of the country, a laureate of prestigious awards.

An outstanding Ukrainian painter, public figure, one of the brightest figures of the fine art of the 20th century in Ukraine.The future artist was born into the family of an accountant. At the age of 17, he graduated from the commercial school in the town of Yuzovka (now Donetsk) and was soon drafted into the army of Denikin.Glushenko was a laureate of the State Prize of Shevchenko, had the title of the People's Artist of the USSR. From the artistic heritage, which according to various data is from 10 to 17 thousand works, the National Art Museum of Ukraine and the Dnepropetrovsk Art Museum own the largest collections. In 2017, in Sednev near Chernigov, the opening of a monument to the outstanding Ukrainian painter took place. As a teacher, Glushenko worked at the Kiev Art School; from 1939, he was a professor at the Moscow Art Institute. Living abroad, he was a scout; before the outbreak of World War II, he sent home a lot of useful information, which is documented in the relevant reports and the official characteristics of agent Janek (Glushenko).

A Russian artist, decorator, graphic artist, one of the bright and active founders of the Russian avant-garde in its several directions. He worked in the styles of late Impressionism and Fauvism, Primitivism and Futurism, Rayonism, Surrealism.The artist was born into a military paramedic's family. Mikhail liked to paint from childhood and often returned to Tiraspol for summer sketches.Larionov was the inventor and theorist of the style of "Rayonism", which was recognized in the history of the world culture and was a forerunner and an integral part of the non-objective art, but existed mainly in Russia. Bright organizational talent manifested itself in the organization of famous groups "Jack of Diamonds" and "Donkey's Tail". As a decorator and costume designer, he worked in many productions of S. Diaghilev's Russian Ballets.In Paris, Larionov appeared as a graphic artist and as an outstanding theater artist. His sketches for decorations and costumes became independent works and were included in collections of museums and private collections, like "Lady with a fan".Whatever Larionov created, his living art has an amazing ability not to leave the viewer indifferent.

Hungarian avant-garde artist, who lived and worked in France for many years and became a part of the Paris School of Painting.He began his creative career as a realist, close to naturalism. He was born into the family of the owner of the famous cafe "Balaton". At the age of 11, he became deaf because of meningitis and was forced to abandon his studies at the gymnasium, graduating only after 4 classes. He inherited his artistic talent from his mother. He studied at the Székesfehérvár Industrial School of L. Telegdi and J. Böhm (1903-1905) and in private schools. Later, studying objectivity tension and applying a variety of innovative techniques, he came to more thematically emotional painting, the form of which was more vanguard. In his motherland, he was a member of such progressive associations of masters of fine arts as HIRC (Hungarian Impressionists and Naturalists Circle) and "Nyolcak" ("The Eight"). In Paris, Lajos Tihanyi was one of the representatives of the international group "Abstraction-Création", which actively worked between 1931 and 1936. Paintings exhibited not only in Budapest, but also in Europe (Vienna, Berlin, Paris) and the United States. They are now in several museums and galleries around the world.

Tyko Konstantin Sallinen was a Finnish artist, the most outstanding figure of the fine art of the early 20th century in his country, the organizer and intellectual leader of creative associations in his homeland, the most significant of which is the November Group.Sallinen was born into a tailor's family, was the eldest child. The family soon moved to Haparanda in Sweden, where the boy spent his childhood, attended school for four years and studied sewing under the guidance of the strict father. The family was puritanical, belonged to a fundamentalist sect and rejected worldly pleasures, including art. Tyko left home at the age of 14 after being beaten by his father once again and lived working as an assistant of a tailor. Returned to the family after 4 years.It is difficult to find a more revolutionary rebel figure among European artists than Tyko Sallinen. Even the fact that there is the term "the first war of Sallinen", “the second", "the small third" in art history, which is understandable to all, speaks of how fiercely he fought with the "old" in the fine arts.The art and personality of the master, who was rebellious, raised a wave of interest in new techniques, but all foreign movements were based on the traditions of Finnish art. The artist was an honorary member of the Royal Academy in Sweden and received the title of the professor of the Finnish Association of Visual Arts. Many essays and books were written about him and a film about his life and work was shot.

A Polish artist, literary critic, poet and playwright, who sought to combine the naivete of folk art with contemporary art movements: Dadaism and Futurism. The parents of the future artist were landowners and gave his son a good education. Tytus graduated from the secondary school in Nowy Sącz, and in 1902 entered the painting faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Here his teachers were outstanding artists Yu. Mehoffer and S. Wyspianski. Having received an education in Paris and participated in the exhibition of the Salon of Independent in 1911, Tytus Czyzewski had a strong influence on the development of the avant-garde art of Poland. He was a participant and one of the organizers of the group of Polish Expressionists, which was then converted into the group "Formists", and edited the magazine with the same name. For several years he worked in the Embassy of Poland in Paris, was engaged in teaching activities, published scientific works in the field of art.

A Dutch painter, graphic artist and illustrator. A participant of the famous Bergen school. Along with Piet Mondrian and Ian Torop, the artist worked in a variety of styles, from Impressionism to Cubism and Expressionism, in which he showed himself most vividly.Leendert was born into a large family. His father and uncle were professional artists and gave the boy an initial art education.Leendert (Leo) Gestel was among the leading artists of Dutch Modernism, who did a lot to promote the advanced art trends in the country. He took part in the first exhibition of “The Circle of Contemporary Art" - an association of artists focused on avant-garde trends in painting, in particular, Cubism and Futurism. In addition to a large number of paintings and drawings, Leo Gestel was engaged in the creation of posters and the design of household items, illustrated a large number of books and magazines.Museum of Leo Gastel, which is now popular, was created in his house in Blaricum.

A Dutch painter, graphic artist and illustrator. A participant of the famous Bergen school. Along with Piet Mondrian and Ian Torop, the artist worked in a variety of styles, from Impressionism to Cubism and Expressionism, in which he showed himself most vividly.Leendert was born into a large family. His father and uncle were professional artists and gave the boy an initial art education.Leendert (Leo) Gestel was among the leading artists of Dutch Modernism, who did a lot to promote the advanced art trends in the country. He took part in the first exhibition of “The Circle of Contemporary Art" - an association of artists focused on avant-garde trends in painting, in particular, Cubism and Futurism. In addition to a large number of paintings and drawings, Leo Gestel was engaged in the creation of posters and the design of household items, illustrated a large number of books and magazines.Museum of Leo Gastel, which is now popular, was created in his house in Blaricum.

Polish artist of Jewish origin, who was born in the Russian Empire and worked in America. Being born in the Polish part of the Russian Empire, Max Weber came early with his family to New York. The very first studying of fine arts took place at the Brooklyn School. His mentor was Arthur Wesley Doe – a rather progressive teacher in the conservative environment of that time. Doe strongly influenced the formation of Weber as a champion of new approaches to the fine arts.

Американский художник, один из первых кубистов в США.Был вторым из четырех детей известного американского адвоката и оратора, бывшего плантатора. Родственники художника в прошлом были крупными землевладельцами, но потеряли большую часть плантаций после Гражданской войн.Работая преимущественно во Франции, Патрик Брюс придумал оригинальную абстрактную технику, основанную на достижениях А. Матисса, Ф. Пикабиа и супругов Делоне. Постоянный участник «Осеннего салона», «Салона Независимых» и других влиятельных выставок в Европе, он был хорошо известен в кругах творческой интеллигенции Парижа. Однако, несмотря на участие художника в знаменитой американской Оружейной выставке в 1913 году, его творчество осталось практически незамеченным на его Родине. Это привело к тому, что Брюс, относящийся к своему творчеству очень самокритично, уничтожил большинство своих произведений в приступе отчаяния, а несколькими годами позже совершил самоубийство в одной из гостиниц Нью-Йорка. Работы художника, которых сохранилось не более ста, свидетельствуют о его оригинальном подходе к живописи и незаурядном таланте. Они находятся в лучших музеях США.

A French artist and engraver, a representative of Fauvism.His father was an amateur artist and instilled in his son love for fine art. The future artist studied at Lycee Hoche in Versailles, where he lived with his parents.Louis Valtat was never a formal member of the Fauvist group, but the key features of his work allow him to be referred specifically to this movement. The artist rarely visited Paris, but it did not stop him from keeping abreast of all the artistic novelties and taking part in various exhibitions: the Salon of Independent, the Autumn Salon, the Vienna Secession, the Free Art exhibitions in Brussels, and the Moscow exhibition - 1908. Louis Valtat also collaborated with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in decorating the Paris theater "L'Oeuvre" in 1894. Thanks to his close acquaintance with the collector A. Vollard, he gained popularity among his compatriots abroad. The creativity of the artist is considered a transition between Impressionism and the new aesthetics of the twentieth century, which the work of Henri Matisse embodies.

An American painter and graphic of German origin.Alfred was born into the family of lithographer and realist artist Louis Maurer, an emigrant from Germany.Maurer's paintings were repeatedly praised in the world: the Salmagundi Club Prize (1900), the first prize at the Carnegie International Show (1901), the bronze medal at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo, the Medal of the Exhibition in Liege (Belgium), the Gold Medal at the International Exhibition in Munich (1905). The New York Society of Independent Artists elected Maurer as its director in 1919. Today it is difficult to see A.H. Maurer's works in a museum or at an exhibition, as most of them are in private collections.

The biggest representative of Post-impressionism and partially Symbolism; however, his early works were created in the style of impressionism. He is considered the forerunner and one of the pioneers of the art of modernism (in the broad sense of this term) not only in painting, but also in sculpture and graphics.Gauguin began painting as an amateur in the 1870s. Soon he actively participated in exhibitions. He became worldly famous only after his demise. And at the end of the 20th century, biographical films about his life were created.

Georges Henri Rouault was a French artist and graphic artist whose work played an important role in the formation of Fauvism and Expressionism in painting. He was born into a poor family. His parents gave him as a pupil to glazier Tamoni, and then as an apprentice to a stained glass workshop. Georges Rouault was one of the most brilliant artists of the early twentieth century, who not only expressed the general tendencies of his time, but also introduced something completely new and fresh in contemporary art. The artist was one of the founders of the Autumn Salon in 1903, and took part in the sensational exposition of the Fauvists, whom critics called "wild" for the excessively intense colors of their paintings, in 1905. Rouault created illustrations and ceramics, as well as was engaged in creating a stage design. He is the author of the scenery and costumes for S. Prokofiev's ballet “The Prodigal Son” directed by S. Diaghilev. At the end of his life, the artist made a large number of stained glass windows, which are distinguished by their extraordinary color expressiveness.

A French self-taught artist, painter and graphic artist, writer, an active member of the group "Fauves" ("Wild" or Fauvist).The artist was born into the family of poor Parisian musicians (a Flemish violinist-emigrant and a pianist from Lorraine). Having learned to play the violin, he began to make a living early, without an opportunity to get a special arts education.Maurice de Vlaminck was quite accurately called the "incinerator" of Expressionism in the group of Fauves. The artist, who attended only private drawing lessons from adolescence, said with pride that he had never visited museums ("did not cross the Louvre threshold"). Maurice believed that the study and copying the paintings of masters, like a specialized school, deprive the creator of identity, making him not a painter, but a theoretician.Numerous solo exhibitions of Maurice’s paintings that took place in Switzerland, England and other European countries, as well as in the USA, helped him confidently gain sympathy among art lovers and art historians all over the world. They made the painter not only popular, but also financially secured. The artist was given the honor to represent France at the Venice Biennale in 1954. As a writer, Vlaminck left a legacy of several novels and autobiographies.

French painter, graphic artist and designer, a vivid representative of Fauvism and Cubism. Raul was born into a large family. His father and brothers were fond of music and theater. The artist is known for his light and joyful canvases depicting rest and holidays. In addition to painting, Raoul Dufy was engaged in illustrations and graphics and showed himself as a talented designer of fabrics, which was very popular and dictated fashion to all of Paris. The artist was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor, his solo exhibitions were held in Paris, Prague, Zurich, Brussels, New York. He received many large orders, including a huge wall painting devoted to the history of the emergence of electricity for the Paris International Exhibition of 1937.

Jan (Johannes) Sluijters, was a Dutch artist an illustrator, poster master, a vivid representative of Expressionism.His father was an illustrator and engraver and developed the artistic talent of the boy from early childhood. At the age of fourteen, the artist moved with his parents and sister to Amsterdam, the city in which he spent most of his life.Johannes Sluijters was the pioneer of the Dutch avant-garde in general. Being at first rejected by conservative critics, but then winning a famous reputation among the public, in 1910, he together with Jan Toorop and other like-minded people founded a group of contemporary art that promoted avant-garde trends and opposed traditional academic canons in painting. Sluijters was also a member of the Association of Artists of The Hague and Amsterdam and was a member of the St. Lucas Society of Artists. Having received recognition in the second half of his career, the artist participated in many exhibitions throughout Europe and was a member of the jury of various competitions.

An outstanding German painter, the founder of Expressionism.Born into the family of professional landscape painter Wilhelm Marc. His mother, a strict Calvinist, was from the French Switzerland - it was her, rather severe upbringing that made the boy serious and thoughtful.The Expressionist movement became so famous because of its interest in the spirituality of the Symbolists, and also due to the harmonious combination of Primitivism, Fauvism and the vector into the flourishing abstraction. Franz Mark included all these styles in his painting style, adding love to theology and to the animal world. To create an alternative, more spiritual vision of the world, he depicted it through the view of animals that emphasized those aspects of modernity that he considered unfavorable. It is also important that his later works moved into almost pure abstraction.He was an active participant and the main organizer of the Munich Artistic Union of artists-innovators "Blue Horseman", created the almanac of the same name. A number of world avant-garde movements of the 20th century considered the work of this artist, who died on the fronts of the First World War, their predecessor. The museum of Franz Marc works in the Bavarian Kochel am See.

A French artist, one of the most powerful colorists of avant-garde painting.Born into a bourgeois family. Soon his father died, and his mother brought up Henri and his sister alone.Henri Manguin was a member of the group of the Fauves, headed by Henri Matisse and was a close friend of pointillist Paul Signac. He participated in many exhibitions of contemporary art, including the famous Autumn salon in 1905, where Fauves first announced themselves with the help of bright colors and expressive emotions of their paintings. The artist was engaged in teaching, as the head of the painting department at the Ranson Academy. Once in the city of Saint-Tropez, Manguin fell in love with the southern nature forever, its lush colors and sunny atmosphere, he even left Paris to settle there.

A French artist, art theorist and teacher. Henri Le Fauconnier was an active participant in the group of artists and poets "Puteaux", and later became one of the founders of the first Cubist association "Golden Section".He was born into a well-to-do bourgeois family. In 1901, young Le Fauconnier came to Paris to study law, but soon became interested in fine arts and studied painting at the studio of Jean-Paul Lawrence, and later studied at the famous Academy of Julian. From 1904, the artist participated in the exhibitions of the "Salon of Independent", presenting his impressionist works.He exhibited his works at the annual Autumn Salon and the Salon of Independent, including the famous exhibition of Cubists at the Gallery 41 in 1911. The artist maintained close ties with his German and Dutch colleagues, was a part of the organization "New Union of Munich Artists" and organized the famous Bergen School in the Netherlands, which contributed to the dissemination of abstract painting in these countries. From 1912, the artist headed the Academy of La Palette in Paris, where his students, among others, were Marc Chagall and Marcel Gromer. Henri Le Fauconnier often visited Russia, where he exhibited his paintings at the Salon Golden Fleece, Salon Izdebsky in Odessa and at the exhibitions of the Knave of Diamonds in Moscow.

Henri Jacques Edouard Evenepoel was a Belgian and French painter, engraver and draftsman.During his short creative career, Henri Evenepoel created the vast majority of works in a style that later was called Fauvism. Worked in the genre of portrait, including nude, created interiors, storyboards and posters. Was one of the first to actively and creatively use the photo to create original works of art. Both the paintings and drawings of the artist are in the collections of the best galleries and museums in Europe.

A French painter and master of monumental paintings, who worked in several art styles.Lebasque is known as "the artist of joy and light" for his lyrical canvas full of harmony. He belonged to the circle of Henri Matisse and founded with him the independent Autumn Salon, which exhibited the works of the most progressive artists and sculptors. Henri Lebasque exhibited his works along with Fauvists at the famous Autumn Salon in 1905, where their work was called rampant and "wild" because of the defiantly bright colors. The artist created a large number of landscapes, portraits, scenes in the interior with nudity. The internal design of the Parisian theater on the Champs Elysees and transatlantic liners also belong to the brush of Henri Lebasque.

A French and American artist, designer, graphic illustrator, poet and publicist, who had Cuban citizenship.The artist's father was a Cuban attaché; his mother was a Frenchwoman. Financially secured Picabia studied with Fernand Cormon and other well-known teachers at the School of Applied Arts. After graduation, the artist worked at the studio of Cormon with his classmates Georges Braque and Marie Laurencin for the next four years.Francis Picabia became famous as an eccentric artist who does not obey any rules and stylistic dogmas in his work. He was called "Papa Dada", since he was the largest figure of the Dada movement in the United States and France, and the editor of the avant-garde magazine "391", where the works of artists of this movement were published. Together with his friend and companion Marcel Duchamp, Picabia had a great influence on contemporary art, in particular, on Surrealism and conceptualism. The main galleries of contemporary art in the world still actively acquire the master's paintings.

A French artist and sculptor, participant of the Cubists' Union "Golden Section".Born into a poor family. After receiving the certificate of secondary education, Andre became a student at a furniture workshop where he mastered the skills of decorative wood carving. Since 1899, he attended decorative art courses at the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux and worked as a woodcarver.André Lhote was one of the most intelligent and universal artists of the early 20th century. A follower of Cubism and Fauvism in painting and a talented sculptor, he is also known as an influential art critic and teacher, a founder of a private art school in Paris and in Rio de Janeiro. The theoretical ideas of the artist enjoyed great popularity among contemporaries; he lectured to a wide audience throughout France, as well as in Belgium, England, Italy, Egypt and Brazil. In 1955, the artist received the National Award for Contribution to the Development of Modern Painting and became a President of the International Association of Artists, Engravers and Sculptors. Numerous international exhibitions were held throughout his life, including a large retrospective exhibition of works by André Lhote in the Paris Museum of Modern Art in 1957.

A Swiss and German painter, graphic artist, art theorist, one of the biggest figures of the European avant-garde.Paul, the son of a German father and a Swiss mother, was born on December 18 near Bern in Münchenbuchze. Both of his parents were musicians: his father taught music at a college, while his mother was a professional singer. From the age of seven, the boy played the violin, and other hobbies were drawing and writing poems. Despite the family's desire that his son builds a musical career, he decided to achieve success in the fine arts, where he could "create, and not just perform."A citizen of Germany, P. Klee was born, spent much of his life and died in Switzerland. He was an active member of Blue Horseman group, he taught at Bauhaus - an influential school of architecture and industrial design, at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts. Pictures came to the exhibition of "degenerate" art. The influence of the creativity of Paul Klee extends to many styles of the 20th century: Surrealism and Minimalism, geometric Abstract art and Abstract expressionism. The Center of P. Klee was opened in Bern.

A French artist, graphic artist, illustrator and ceramist.He was born into the family of the owners of a factory. Studied at an Art School in Lyon, where he attended drawing and painting lessons of Tony Tolle.Jean Puy was an active supporter of Fauvism and took part in the Autumn Salon of 1905, where this movement headed by Matisse, first manifested itself. He was a well-known and recognized master, admired by the poets Apollinaire, Carco and Klingsor, and critics Alexander, Kokyo and Moryes always devoted the artist enthusiastic articles. Jean Puy took part in exhibitions around the world, illustrated popular publications and signed a long-term contract with well-known art dealer A. Vollard to buy his works.

Henri-Achille-Emile-Othon-Friesz was a French painter, graphic designer and decorator, a talented teacher, the founder of the private school of painting in Paris.His father and grandfather were both seamen and wanted Emille to devote himself to the family business. The boy began to show his artistic ability at an early age, and his parents sent him to the School of Fine Arts in his hometown. There he got acquainted and made friends with Fauvist Raoul Dufy.Othon Friesz was a member of the Fauvist group, headed by Henri Matisse and is rightly considered one of the brightest representatives of this art movement. In 1906, the artist became one of the founders of The Circle of Contemporary Art - the association of artists, admirers of Le Havre and took an active part in art exhibitions around the world. His contemporaries appreciated the art of Friesz, his paintings were popular with the public and evoked positive reviews of colleagues; in 1933, and the artist was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor.

A Russian and Soviet painter, still-life master, landscape painter and portraitist, one of the founding members of the exhibition and art association "Jack of Diamonds", a member of the Society of Moscow Artists.Ilya was born into the family of "state peasants" engaged in petty trade. He was the oldest of nine children and had to start working at the age of 11.He worked in the styles of post-impressionism, fauvism, neo-primitivism, in the late period – in the style of postmodernism ("socialist realism").He was a member of the movement "The World of Art" (since 1916), the creative group "Moscow painters" (since 1925), and became an active member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia in 1924-1928. The fame of I. I. Mashkov spread beyond the European continent, since from 1924 works were exhibited in America, Venice, London. Vienna and Paris. He was awarded the title of Honored Art Worker of Russia in 1928, was awarded a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Paris in the late 1930s, received a bronze medal "For Outstanding Contribution to the World Art" in New York.

A French artist, a representative of Fauvism in painting. Known for his landscape works.The father of Charles had a business of supplying varnishes and paints. After his death in 1885, the future artist and three other children were under the care of his uncle and lived alternately in Marseilles and Paris. He attended art classes at the School of Fine Arts in Marseilles.Charles Camoin was one of those who in the 1890s studied at the studio of Gustave Moreau, was close friends with Henri Matisse, and later joined Fauvists. The artist kept in with such outstanding Impressionists as Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Auguste Renoir and participated in many art exhibitions, including the famous "Armory show" in the United States. In 1955, the President of France, René Coty, awarded Camoin for his contribution to French art. The artist lived a long and fruitful life, leaving behind a large number of remarkable landscapes and portraits, executed in a bright individual style.

A Czech avant-garde artist. He was an active member of the Czech association "Eight" ("Osma") and the organizer of the first Prague exhibition "Independent", and also became a member of the group of the first German Expressionists "Bridge" (Die Brücke, Dresden, then Berlin) and Berlin's “New Secession".Bohumil was born and raised into a poor family. In 1896-1905, he studied at a real school, where he discovered a great mathematical ability. After graduation, he entered the Art and Industrial School (the School of Applied Arts) in Prague, which he left because of the conflict with the teacher. Then he intended to continue his studies at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, although was completely dissatisfied with the classical teaching system. He left this educational institution, went to work in the army for money. The appearance of Kubista as a painter was influenced by E. Munch's exhibition, which he once visited.The artist's works are an adornment of the collections of many Czech galleries and museums. The works of Bohumil Kubista had a significant impact on the formation of the national avant-garde in its various manifestations, the painting of a young generation of artists of the period between world wars and the creative youth of the 1960s of the 20th century.Despite the fact that the entire creative career of Bohumil Kubista covers ten years, it is impossible to imagine the creation and development of the national Czech avant-garde painting without him. His work contributed to the spread of various theories of art in the Czech Republic, bringing it closer to the level of world achievements. Being not only a talented and original artist, B. Kubista said his word and in a European scale - the synthesis of art used by him is called a special "expressionistic cubism". The first Prague exhibitions of "independent" artists, who formed opposition to Academism, were held thanks to the active participation of Bohumil Kubista, an energetic organizer and uncompromising champion of contemporary art in their preparation.

Cornelis (Kees) Theodorus Maria van Dongen is a French and Dutch artist and graphic artist, one of the founders of Fauvism.Kees van Dongen lived and worked in Paris, having obtained French citizenship in 1929. He participated in various exhibitions, including the famous Autumn Salon of 1905, together with H. Matisse, Vlaminck, Derain, Manguin, when the artists were first called fauvists ("wild") for their bright color paintings. The artist also drew cartoons for popular newspaper La Revue Blanche, organized costumed balls in Montparnasse. Since 1908, he became a member of the art association "Most" (Germany). Van Dongen was friendly with Pablo Picasso and his entourage, living in the famous hostel of Bato Lavoir in Montmartre. The artist's paintings brought him great popularity in the circles of the French bourgeoisie and, as a consequence, - prosperity. In 1926, Dongen was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor; in 1927, he was awarded the Order of the Crown of Belgium.

A Swiss artist, sculptor, illustrator and graphic artist, who also created numerous wall paintings. He signed his paintings with the pseudonym Emil Sinclair.Cuno Amiet was born into the family of an official (state archivist) in the canton of Solothurn, where he began to take painting lessons.The artist worked in the genres of landscape and portrait. Belongs to the post-impressionist art movement, was a member of the Pont-Aven School, the Nabis group and the Vienna Secession. He was an honorary Doctor of Arts at the University of Berne, as well as an honorary member of the Solothurn Union of Artists, and since 1906 actively participated in the Art Association "The Bridge" (Germany).

August Robert Ludwig Macke was a German innovative artist, one of the leaders of Expressionist group “The Blue Rider”, the author of program works published in the almanac of the same name under the auspices of the association.He was the youngest of three children of successful civil engineer Friedrich Macke and Maria Florentina, who came from a peasant family. Soon after the birth of their son, the family moved to Cologne, and then to Bonn, where the boy entered a real gymnasium, and his parents organized a boarding school. August’s father painted landscapes, collected ancient engravings and coins - so the fascination with painting was not accidental. The first watercolors of the young man are dated 1902 year.

A Russian painter, who worked in Germany and Switzerland.Alexej was the fifth of eight children born into the family of a colonel in the Russian army. In the 1980s, he served as an officer in the imperial army. At the same time, he was a student of Ilya Repin, working in his workshop at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.He was a founding member of the association of Munich Expressionist artists "New Art Society" (Neue Künster Vereinigung), the group "Blue Horseman" ("Der Blaue Reiter"); starting in 1925, he was a member of the Blue Four ("Die Blauen Vier") - an association that actively collaborated with German and American art galleries and art dealers.

Alexander Kuprin was a Russian, and then Soviet painter and teacher. A master of the still life and cityscape. One of the founding members of the exhibition and creative association named "Jack of Diamonds".Alexander was born into the family of a teacher of a local school. From childhood, he was fond of music (he wrote a few fugues) and drawing. As a result of a long apprenticeship, he learned the Petersburg and Moscow traditional schools of drawing and painting, and also got in some good creative practice directly in France.

Albert Marquet was a French landscape painter, illustrator and graphic artist, whose work is connected with Post-impressionism, although he was close to Fauvism for some time. Albert was born into the family of a railway employee. The mother of the future artist encouraged her son's interest in painting. Marquet’s works were included in group exhibitions: in the Autumn Salons starting in 1902, and the Salon of Independent starting in 1906. He was also the author of a large number of skillful graphic works, kept in the museum of Malraux in Le Havre, and illustrations to the book by Charles-Louis Philippe "Bubu de Montparnasse", which was published in 1903. Albert Marquet preferred to live in small picturesque towns of France, traveled a lot, and visited even the USSR, where he had many admirers. Many of his pieces are kept in Russian museums. His art is a true example of the harmony of inner peace and dedication to his vocation.

Dutch artist who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. The founder and leader of “De Stijl” (“Style”), a Dutch artistic movement also known as Neoplasticism. As a poet he wrote under the pseudonym I. K. Bonset, and as a philosopher – the pseudonym Aldo Kamini.Van Doesburg was an architect by profession; he learned painting on his own. The artist created his works after long and careful calculation, using mathematical formulas. According to the theory of “Style”, compositions were to be constructed in accordance with the proportional relations between the geometric fragments that are included in their composition.

Artist and art theoretician. He was the pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Suprematist movement and Cubo-Futurism.Malevich created his first oil painting at the age of 16. It was named “Moonlit Night”. In his paintings, he tried to combine the principles of Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism. He was also interested in aerial photography and aviation, which led him to abstractions inspired by aerial landscapes.

Mondrian was one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art. He changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, which was eventually reduced to simple geometric elements.

Major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor, and founder of Cubism (together with Pablo Picasso).Braque came from a family of artisans. He grew up in Le Havre and studied as a painter and decorator, like his father and grandfather. However, he also seriously studied painting in the evenings at the School of Fine Arts. The artist’s early works were impressionistic. After viewing an exhibition of the works by Fauves in 1905, the painter adopted their style. Shiny red, white, yellow and orange colours prevailed in his works.

Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was a French artist, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. He was the leader of the Fauvism movement and is known for both his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. Apart from Fauvism, he worked in other genres such as Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Cubism.

André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. Two other main styles of his work were Cubism and Neo-Classicism.

Mediums: oil, wood. Location: The Sheffield Museum (the UK).

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, wood. Location: The collection of the London Department of Culture, Media and Sports (the UK).

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: National Museum of Art, Kiev (Ukraine).

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.

Mediums: watercolor. Location: Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, USA.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Collection of M. Saryan House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia.

Mediums: tempera, cardboard. Location: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Mediums: tempera, cardboard. Location: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Mediums: watercolor, paper. Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Mediums: oil, cardboard. Location: The National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Museum of Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Museum of Arts of A. Pushkin, Moscow, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Mediums: oil, panel. Location: Art Museum of Frederick R. Weismann Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Mediums: oil, panel. Location: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Mediums: oil, panel. Location: Bentonville Art Museum, Arkansas, USA.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Collection B. Köhler, Berlin.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 140 x 190 сm. Location: Museum of Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, USA.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: : 112 x 85 сm. Location: Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: State Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Hermitage St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Hermitage St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 208 x 270 сm. Location: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Cantini Museum, Marseille, France.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Dallas Museum of Art, USA.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The National Art Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic.

Mediums: oil, cardboard, canvas. Location: The Gallery of Western Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Museum A. Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Museum of Art, Solothurn, Switzerland.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany.

Mediums: oil, paper. Location: Omsk Museum of Fine Arts, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Gallery in Lenbachhauz, Munich, Germany.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 114 x 87 сm. Location: Municipal Museum of The Hague, the Netherlands.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, US.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 260 x 391 сm. Location: Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 40,5 x 32,5 сm. Location:National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 109,5 x 114 сm. Location: Pushkin Museum.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 72 x 91 сm. Location: Musee d'Art Moderne de Troyes, Troyes, France.

Mediums: oil, panel. Dimensions: 56,2 x 46,04 сm. Location: private collection.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Location: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 180 x 230 сm. Location: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Mediums: oil, canvas. Dimensions: 82×101 сm. Location: Pushkin Museum, Moscow.

This artistic movement includes many different styles, created by several artists who worked in different techniques. Such paintings combine some similarities.

This artistic movement includes many different styles, created by several artists who worked in different techniques. Such paintings combine some similarities.