| − | The leader of the "Fauves" was Matisse, who had arrived at the ''Fauve'' style after earlier experimenting with the various Post-Impressionist styles of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne, and the Neo-Impressionism of Seurat, Cross, and Signac. These influences inspired him to reject traditional three-dimensional space and seek instead a new picture space defined by the movement of color planes. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm] | + | The leader of the "Fauves" was Matisse, who had arrived at the ''Fauve'' style after earlier experimenting with the various Post-Impressionist styles of Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne, and the Neo-Impressionism of Seurat, Cross, and Signac. These influences inspired him to reject traditional three-dimensional space and seek instead a new picture space defined by the movement of color planes. [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fauv/hd_fauv.htm] ''Fauvism'' began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910. |