Fauvism had a woman problem. The movement's untamed art freed color from a descriptive, imitative function to communicate emotion, and its delineated planes prepared the way for cubism and the dawn of abstract art. But the role of women in the movement has been largely unacknowledged—as is the large debt owed to the women who enabled Fauvism from behind the scenes. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230912-how-female-fauvists-were-some-of-historys-most-audacious-painters
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