Century Vanguard Painting" focuses on female nudity and the artist's motive behind this. She believes the female nudes were used in the decade before World War I by a number of European artists with a similar style and content which reflected the sexual appetite of the artist. - Examples Kess Van Dongen, Reclining Nude (1904-05); Munch, Reclining Nude (1905); Kirchner, Girl Under a Japanese Umbrella (ca. 1909)

H.W. Janson's (Selection on early modernism from A Basis History of Art) study of some of these works reflects his preoccupation with the artist,his style,and place in history and art in particular. Janson asserts that Fauves were a flock of young painters who came out of the morbid and decadent mood of the 1890's. Several of them developed a radical style using violent colors and bold distortions. Their work was so shocking they dubbed the name Fauves.

In contrast Duncan expresses that "Fauves and the Brucke, were youth and health cultists who liked noisy colors and wanted to

Duncan is under the assumption that the Fauves and the Bruckes formed by the chain of events, possibly a reaction to the gloom and boredom in the decay of 1890's, were revolutionaries. Although there were radical off-springs advocating new changes (not fundamental, however) such as anarchists and pacifists,they represented a middle class based movement of style and form and a breakaway from the traditional forms.

paint their direct experience of mountains, flags, sunshine and naked girls". In her opinion they were reactionary in the sense that they shared similar view with their predecessors that art is about the central problem of existence and the struggle of the middle class male against bourgeois society.

This work she explains shows many opposing faces. "Whore and deity, decadent and savage, tempting and repelling, awesome and obscene, looming and crouching, masked and naked, threatening and powerless". She sees women being desecrated icon slashed and torn to pieces. She criticizes Matisse's Red Studio for having eight female nudes out of eleve

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