Louis Vauxcelles

…“cubes” from the Paris critic Louis Vauxcelles that soon blossomed into a stylistic label.

…were made by the critic Louis Vauxcelles, who derisively described Braque’s 1908 work Houses at L’Estaque as being composed of cubes. In Braque’s painting, the volumes of the houses, the cylindrical forms of the trees, and the tan-and-green colour scheme are reminiscent of Paul Cézanne’s landscapes, which deeply inspired the…

…these visitors was the critic Louis Vauxcelles, who, because of the violence of their works, dubbed the painters fauves (“wild beasts”).

…latter exhibition that the critic Louis Vauxcelles called these artists fauves (“wild beasts”); he considered their canvases of bold colour, applied in a spontaneous and impulsive manner, too unrefined. Vlaminck usually preferred a palette of primary colours, as seen in Tugboat on the Seine, Chatou (1906).