Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), born in Paris, was one of the painters who exhibited at the 1905 Salon d’Automne, considered the beginning of the Fauvism art movement. The name “Fauvism” came from a ...

You might not think so when you read headlines about a Van Gogh failing to sell at auction, but Impressionist and modern art are booming alongside contemporary art. So much so that good Impressionism ...

Contours of a World” at the Guggenheim Museum includes paintings as well as photography that suggests an alternate path.

It’s impossible for contemporary audiences to experience those startlingly original modernist works that altered the course of art history the way viewers did when they were first exhibited. We can’t ...

She almost always wore black, but in Woman with a Hat (1905) so many colours swirl around the canvas that Amélie Matisse's dress is an indeterminate shade. She was a brunette, but her hair is a streak ...

The Folkwang Museum is hosting a show of work that juxtaposes French Fauvism with similar movements across Europe. Politically, the Continent might have been deeply divided in the early 20th century, ...

In 1905, painter Henri Matisse invited young Parisian artist André Derain to join him in the French fishing village of Collioure. Inspired by the exquisite light of the Mediterranean, the two men ...

Barcelona's European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) currently hosts contemporary Chinese painter Liu Chun's first exhibition outside her home country. The title of the event described her as a "Pioneer ...