1904 in France


Events from the year 1904 in France.

Incumbents

The unofficial art mouvement of Fauvism. Henri Matisse was the leader of the small group, with other major artists including André Derain and maurice de Vlaminick. The mouvement was never made official with documents signed by members of a list of criteria in order for work to be considered Fauvism, but it was simply a small group of mainly French painters who used brilliant colour and unexpected brushstrokes, similar to the German Expressionism mouvement. Matisse created the Fauve style after experimenting with post-impressionistic painters, such as Gauguin, Cézanne and Van Gogh, as well as the Neo-impressionism of Cross, Signac and Seurat. All these painters inspired Matisse to reject 3D uses of spaces and use colour and mouvement to create 2D planes of space.

Sport

January to March