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

Surrealism Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

.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 an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

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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