Devajyoti Ray, Manjit Bawa,           Ramachandran

Inspired by the art of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, some Paris based artists started a short-lived art movement that emphasized the use of colour in a liberal way not so much to imitate nature as much as to express the mood of the artist.

The main proponents of Fauvism were Henri Matisse, Andre Derain and Georges Braque. Matisse was a contemporary of Picasso who is often credited with the beginning of cubism in Art and the influence of one on the other is evident from their later works and like cubism, fauvism too is considered as the beginning of abstraction.

Henri Matisse

Though colors as means to express the artist’s inner feelings had always been an accepted norm in India, particularly in tribal and folk art, very few Indian fine-artists have taken colors as a means to express themselves. One artist who however stands as an exception in this regard is probably Jamini Roy.

Jamini Roy