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Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Fauve Look France, 1920s, designed by E. A. Seguy, from Bouquets et Frondaisons D427 02

Title: Textile Design Art Movements and Period Styles Fauve Look France, 1920s, designed by E. A. Seguy, from Bouquets et Frondaisons D427_02
Design Library Classification: Art Movements and Period Styles
Design Library Sub-classification: Fauve Look
Media Type Textile Design
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Creator(s): Unknown
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Contributor: Design Library
Country France
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Publication Date: 1920s
Image Description: France, 1920s, designed by E. A. Seguy

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"AT THE PARIS Salon d'Automne of 1905, the critic Louis Vauxcelles, finding a Renaissance-style statue surrounded by walls of modern paintings, exclaimed loudly, "Donatello au milieu des fauves!" (Donatello among the wild beasts). Purely by accident, Vauxcelles had named an art movement, led by Henri Matisse and distinguished by vivid and surprising color. Fabric patterns like these were certainly influenced by the Fauves, but they relate even more closely to Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which made their first appearance in Paris in 1909. Like the Fauves, Leon Bakst, designer of sets and costumes for Diaghilev, used intense clashing colors and bold motifs, starting a fashion trend. Right through the 1920s and into the 1930s women wore turbans, harem pants, Persian jackets, and slave bracelets inspired by the exotic, sensual costumes of the Ballets Russes. The motifs were highly stylized, flat, and almost primitive, but the result was extremely sophisticated. Raoul Dufy, one of the best known of the Fauve artists, achieved success as both painter and textile designer."

Source: Design Library