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He dabbled with Fauvism, Austrian Expressionism and Post-Impressionism, but like so many who experiment, these tastes gave way to the hard stuff: Abstract Expressionism and Francis Bacon-inspired figuration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Not unlike Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Demy with cinema’s Nouvelle Vague or Matisse and Derain with Fauvism, Diddy’s Bad Boy milieu of ghetto-fabulous grew into a global movement.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2017
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
On the mezzanine, you’ll start with Picasso and Matisse circa 1900, and work your way through modernism, cubism, Fauvism and German expressionism.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2016
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
