The person in visual 1 spotted a sculpture such as the one shown in visual 2 in a room filled with paintings that looked like visual 4. In particular, the sculpture was adjacent to the painting shown in visual 3. This might have led him to exclaim something which was published in the papers and the name caught on. Identify all visuals and the remark.
Couple of clarifications - (a) the sculpture the person saw wasn't the sculpture shown in visual 2. (b) The name that caught on refers only to paintings like the one shown in visual 4 and not to the one in visual 3.
Answer: The visuals are in order the art critic Louis Vauxcelles, Donatello's David, Henri Rousseau's The hungry lion throws itself on the antelope and Henri Matisse's Woman with a Hat. Vauxcelles commented that seeing a classical sculpture amidst the paintings that used color so boldly and liberally was like seeing Donatello amidst wild beasts (Donatello au milieu des fauves). Thus the new art movement came to be known as fauvism. His comments might have been prompted by Rousseau's painting. Raghu, Hirak, Iam and Rajesh got it. Well done.
Couple of clarifications - (a) the sculpture the person saw wasn't the sculpture shown in visual 2. (b) The name that caught on refers only to paintings like the one shown in visual 4 and not to the one in visual 3.
Answer: The visuals are in order the art critic Louis Vauxcelles, Donatello's David, Henri Rousseau's The hungry lion throws itself on the antelope and Henri Matisse's Woman with a Hat. Vauxcelles commented that seeing a classical sculpture amidst the paintings that used color so boldly and liberally was like seeing Donatello amidst wild beasts (Donatello au milieu des fauves). Thus the new art movement came to be known as fauvism. His comments might have been prompted by Rousseau's painting. Raghu, Hirak, Iam and Rajesh got it. Well done.
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Fauvism (from Les Fauves - The Wild Beasts)
The remark "Donatello among the wild beasts" was made by Louis Vauxcelles for Henri Matisse's "Woman with a Hat", on account of Henri Rousseau's "The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope" and (in this question) Donatello's "David" being displayed together.
Fauvism
#1 looks so much like Monet, but I guess its the critic Louis Leroy since you say that he made the remark that was published.
#2: No idea!
#3 looks like a Japanese woodcut print.
#4 is an impressionist painting... looks like Renoir.
Remark: "Impression I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it — and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! A preliminary drawing for a wallpaper pattern is more finished than this seascape." ...Ouch!
Louis Vauxcelles
Donatello's David the Minimalist
Henri Rousseau's Lion chewing on an Antelope
Matisse's Woman with a hat (Who else can see a fish facing right on the hat?)
Connect Fauvism
1 - Henri Matisse
2 - Donatello's David
4 - Woman with a hat
Donatello among the wild beasts. Wasn't the remark made by Louis Vauxcelles?
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