# Fauvism (フォーヴィスム)

> A short-lived movement that severed colour from the depiction of its subject, slamming pure hues onto the canvas as flat planes. The brushstroke itself carries the contour, and adjacent complementaries make the surface vibrate. It became the starting point for every later design that uses colour as a device of emotion.

- IndexStyle No.460 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/fauvism
- Kind: Style · Family: Avant-garde · Era: 1904–1908
- Mood: Exhilaration
- Color cues: #e9e6dd / #67635d / #171615 (cues taken from reference works, not a fixed palette)

## Defining characteristics

- Pure colour straight from the tube
- Complementaries set directly side by side
- Bare white ground left unpainted
- Rough brushstrokes doubling as contours

## Best used for

- Posters and covers where saturated colour carries the whole message
- Campaign visuals that need raw, immediate emotional heat

## Research method

This entry records a historical style; derive the treatment from its sources rather than a fixed recipe:

- Loose, brush-lettered display forms; nothing engineered or geometric
- Flat planes of colour locked edge to edge, with bare ground breathing between strokes
- Unmixed saturated pigment—vermilion, viridian, cobalt—against untouched white

## What to avoid

Avoid taming the palette or smoothing the strokes; once the colour stops clashing and vibrating, Fauvism collapses into pleasant decoration.

## Application checklist

Before calling a piece an application of this style, check it against the defining characteristics:

- [ ] Pure colour straight from the tube
- [ ] Complementaries set directly side by side
- [ ] Bare white ground left unpainted
- [ ] Rough brushstrokes doubling as contours
- [ ] At least one reference work below has been studied directly
- [ ] The caution above ("What to avoid") has been addressed

## Related styles

- **Expressionism (表現主義)** — Paints what was felt rather than what was seen — warped form, violent strokes, unnatural color moving the age's anxiety straight onto the surface. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/expressionism
- **Cloisonnism (クロワゾニスム)** — A manner of painting named after the partitions of cloisonné enamel: flat fields of colour enclosed by heavy contour lines. It brought the way of seeing of ukiyo-e prints and stained glass into oil painting, abandoning shaded volume in favour of colour laid down from memory. The technique that prepared the flatness of the poster. → https://indexstyle.org/styles/cloisonnism

## Further study

- The 'wild beasts' review at the 1905 Salon d'Automne
- The relationship between colour and emotion
- The development toward decorative flatness

## Reference works

- Henri Matisse《開いた窓、コリウール》1905 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open%20Window%2C%20Collioure%2C%201905%20-%20Henri%20Matisse.jpg
- Henri Matisse《コリウールの風景》1905 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri%20Matisse%20-%20Landscape%20at%20Collioure%20-%201905.jpg
- Henri Matisse《アンドレ・ドラン》1905 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andr%C3%A9%20Derain%2C%20par%20Henri%20Matisse.jpg

## Source of record

- Tate — Art Terms: Fauvism — https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/f/fauvism

## Machine surfaces

- JSON: https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/fauvism
- Image-generation prompt (legally clean): https://indexstyle.org/styles/fauvism/prompt.txt
- MCP: https://indexstyle.org/mcp (tools: search_styles, get_style, compose_styles; prompts: image-prompt, apply-style)

## 日本語

色を対象の再現から切り離し、純色を平坦な面として叩きつけた短命な運動。輪郭は筆致そのものが担い、補色の隣接が画面を振動させる。色彩を情動の装置として使う以降のすべての設計の起点になった。

特徴: チューブから出したままの純色／補色の直接隣接／塗り残しの白地／荒い筆致が輪郭を兼ねる
注意: 表面的な記号へ還元せず、時代・地域・技術・制作主体の文脈を確認する。