Neo-Fauvism

Neo-Fauvism was a poetic style of French painting from the mid-1920s proposed as a challenge to Surrealism. The magazine Cahiers d'Art was launched in 1926 and its writers mounted a challenge to the Surrealist practice of automatism by seeing it not in terms of unconscious expression, but as another development of traditional artistry. They identified a group of artists as the exponents of this and termed them Neo-Fauves. Although these artists were later mostly forgotten, the movement had an effect of disillusioning the Surrealist group with the technique of graphic automatism as a revolutionary means of by-passing conventional aesthetics, ideology and commercialism. Neo-Fauvism has been seen as the last trend within painting that could be marketed as a coherent style.¶

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Neo-Fauvism is poetic style of painting, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.¹¶

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