RAOUL DUFFY (1877-1953)
Raoul Dufy's fauve works were influenced by impressionism, containing,
along with the pure fauve colors, touches of pinks, whites and blues. The advent of Modernism if often dated by the appearance of the Fauves
in Paris at the Salon d'Automne in 1905. Their style of painting, using
non-naturalistic colors, was one of the first avant-garde developments
in European art. They greatly admired van Gogh, who said of his own work:
``Instead of trying to render what I see before me, I use color in a
completely arbitrary way to express myself powerfully''.
The Fauvists carried this idea further, translating their feelings into
color with a rough, almost clumsy style.
