Why doyou paint? "I do it for translating into colours and into drawing my own emotions, my sensations and the reactions of my sensitivity, something that nor the most perfect of cameras, nor movie technique, could afford to reach." What are painters useful for today? "They can enlarge colours and traces of drawing through the richness of their imagination, intensified by their own emotion and through their own pondering and reflection about beauty of nature, the same way musicians and poets do.But we need only those painters who have the gift of translating their inmost feelings into drawing and colouring." How do you express yourself in the creative moment? "A focused study allows my mind to absorbe the object of my vision, and it lets me identify with it in the exact moment that I paint it on the canvas. I make this in the most elementary way: colours do not have to mix nor merge, for not trashing their pure light. I express myself only by the colours relationships and links." Henry Matisse, radio interview, 1942 ------------------------------------------- Chalks and pencils on black paper, this is the first of a series of unusual works for me, linked to the awesome March theme which explores the "isms" of art of 1900. This one, inspired by the Fauves, is dedicated to my friend Luc,Cibele here, who adores them. ------------------------------------------- When in 1905 the Salon d'Automne opened its gates, just when impressionism was just starting to make itself accepted for real, the Fauves (The wildbeasts, for the force of their expressivity) like a hurricane settled up a new revolution, although they weren't meant to be any organized group. The Fauves' positions were the consequences out from the controversy created by Anti-Impressionism wills: they wanted to oppose to the theory of painting like representation of the impressions blossomed out from reality into the artist, the one of painting as exclusive ego of artist's representation: the artist SEES the reality in a peculiar way, different from what others see, since the artist feels the reality and then he pictures it, subjectively, by pouring into it the personal feeling, without obey to rules valid to everyone else. The Fauves think that the fundamental of pure expression, namely not "polluted" by the object represented, must be the COLOUR. The impressionism was celebrating the colours, but only after the proper impressionists, with Gaugin, Van Gogh, Seurat the colour becomes the proper way to a language, and not a mere filtering of lights,when it is considered a proper medium epressive AND symbolic. There are some points of connection between Fauvism and Expressionism but while Expressionism, for the different ground he was fertile in, was filled with disturbance and anguish, the Fauves always pursuit a perfectly refined balance made of elegance and style, regardeless of any will of state controversial accusations to the society.