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Why did critics call the new artists fauves or wild beasts?

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It is Henri Matisse a French artist in the 20th century who was called fauves or wild beast. Critics called him like that because of the usage of super bright colors, the arrangement of it that disobey and elude nature and way he took forms and made them as his own.

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