The beginning of [?] in art is often attributed to the [?] in Paris in [?] when a small group of painters, exhibiting together in Room 7, showed work with a completely new style and concept. The art critic Louis Vauxcelles, on seeing a [?] sculpture of a boy among these new paintings, is said to have commented, "C'est [?] dans la cage aux [?]!" - "It's Donatello [i.e. a classical sculptor] in the middle of the wild beasts' cage!". The name 'Fauves' caught on, becoming a term of [?] - although it had not been intended as such - and the [?] that followed made the artists famous.

Among the original Fauves were Henri (1869 - 1954), Maurice de (1876 - 1958) and André Derain (1880 - 1954). One of their assistants was Dufy (1877 - 1953), who also became closely associated with Fauvism. The movement, though [?], was short-lived and only a [?] stage for many of the artists involved. By 1908 they were experimenting with other styles and forms such as [?], although Matisse continued to pursue the [?] of the movement he had originated throughout his long life.

Unlike the [?] who wanted to imitate the effects of by using colour, the Fauves aimed to light through their use of colour. For them the subject of painting, whether [?], portrait or [?], was always colour itself, and the depiction of [?] was secondary to the formal issues being explored. In this non-objective art detail was [?], nature was simplified and [?], and was used for its own sake. Matisse explained, "When I use a green it is not grass. When I use a blue it is not sky".

Fauve artists [?] with the relationship of colours to each other, applying [?], unblended colour straight from the [?] so that colour mixing was achieved by the of the viewer and not on the [?]. Since they used [?] colour with no tonal [?] to create an illusion of three dimensions, there was a resultant emphasis on [?], pattern and surface. Colour structured the [?] and generated and movement. Colour was [?] by the [?] of complementaries like red/, /orange, yellow/, which seem to [?] when placed together.