Neo-Fauvism was a poetic style of painting from the mid-1920s proposed as a challenge to

Surrealism Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

.Grant, Kim. ''Surrealism and the Visual Arts: Theory and Reception''
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Cambridge University Press 2005. , . The magazine ''Cahiers d'Art'' was launched in 1926 and its writers mounted a challenge to the

Surrealist Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

practice of automatism by seeing it not in terms of unconscious expression, but as another development of traditional artistry. They identified a group of artists as the exponents of this and termed them Neo-Fauves. Although these artists were later mostly forgotten, the movement had an effect of disillusioning the Surrealist group with the technique of graphic automatism as a revolutionary means of by-passing conventional aesthetics, ideology and commercialism. Neo-Fauvism has been seen as the last trend within painting that could be marketed as a coherent style.Goethe-Institut
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