which artist started fauves movement
Les Fauves (Wild Beasts) â¢ Fauvism was the first twentieth-century movement in modern art. Inspired by. the examples of van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, and CÃ©zanne. â¢ It grew out of a loosely allied group of French painters with shared interests. Henri Matisse was eventually recognized as the leader of Les Fauves, or The. Wild Beastsâ.