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Hofmann personally experienced the early modern art movements of Fauvism and Cubism in Paris, which gave his teaching a present-at-the-creation credibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
Once he absorbed what Fauvism had to teach him about natural light and pure color, Matisse didn’t get out much.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
Fauvism would become the first major avant-garde movement of the 20th century.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2021
An air of catch-up marks his derivations, from such styles as Henri Matisse’s Fauvism and Kandinsky’s proto-abstraction.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 19, 2017
And yet the ballet was intensely modern; always you were aware that Derain had been right through the movement—through Fauvism, Negroism, Cubism.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
