![Andre Derain at Center Pompidou Exhibit Poster.](http://thelosangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Derain_Poster.jpg)
André Derain together with Henri Matisse started fauvism in 1905. They worked together during the summer of 1905 painting in a small mediterranean village named Collioure. When they later during the fall exhibited their works at the Salon d’Automne in Paris they were labelled “les fauves” (“the wild beasts”), by a critic because of their use of vivid – unnatural colors in the paintings and thus “fauvism” was born!
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![André Derain self - portrait from 1913-14.](http://thelosangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SelfPortrait.jpg)
It is evident from the below painting by André Derain how different the use of bright and strong colors in the fauvism paintings were compared to most other artists of the time.
![The drying of sails (of fishing boats) 1905.](http://thelosangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Drying_Sails_1905.jpg)