Salon d'Automne 1905 — the Cage aux Fauves

In Room VII of the 1905 Salon d'Automne, canvases by Matisse, Derain and Vlaminck blazed with arbitrary, violent color around a conventional Renaissance-style torso, prompting the critic Louis Vauxcelles to write of 'Donatello chez les fauves': Donatello among the wild beasts. The name Fauvism stuck.

The first of the twentieth century's named avant-gardes: color freed from description, a precedent every Expressionist current built on.