Fauvist took the fine arts from the traditional intellectual perception to the perception based on fundamental instincts and emotions. They advocated for pure art, devoid of the laws and norms imposed by the intellect. Their paintings call for emotional feedback rather than contemplation.

Genre paintings provide prolific foundation for this purpose and play a very special role in the movement of fauvism. While in other genres the fauvists interacted with the viewer by means of colour, and colour only, here in the genre paintings the subject, the story accompanies colour. The subjects in question often present nudes in some sensual context. The colour and the layout make these arabesque-looking canvases feel like solo objects, functioning differently from other paintings, living the life rather than picturing it. They do not fit in the interior – they make it. While the viewer is watching them, they actively induce emotions. The paintings please the eye with pure bright colours voluptuously contrasting with each other; they call for basic emotions that come from human nature, not the human society. As for artistic techniques, the genre paintings demonstrate the basic principles of fauvism: disregard of the light and shadow principles and the linear perspective, resulting in simplified and distorted forms; raw pure expressive colour elements separated by thick rough contours that outline the form of the objects – the function that used to be performed by more delicate and “intellectual” colour techniques. Colour becomes the foundation and the main element of the composition. It means that if pink will look harmonious in a certain place of the composition, the object situated in this place will be pink, whether it’s a nose or a window.