Study guide

Fauvism and Early Expressionism

An artwork-by-artwork guide to Fauvism and early Expressionism, about 1905–1918, compiled from museum collection records.

Between about 1905 and 1918, painters and printmakers in Paris, Dresden, Berlin, Munich and Vienna stopped treating color and line as tools for describing the world and used them to carry feeling. This section follows them through fifty-four works, with the facts of each object drawn from museum collection records.

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Contents

• The Wild Beasts
• Bridge to the Future
• City and War
• Toward Abstraction
• Animals and Color
• Nerves Exposed

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