Vancouver is sometimes compared to the Fauves. Both movements shared interests in primitivist art. Both shared an interest in the expressing of extreme emotion through high-keyed color that was very often non-naturalistic. Both movements employed a drawing technique that was crude, and both groups shared an antipathy to complete abstraction. Our artists emotionally agitated paintings of city streets and sexually charged transpiring in country settings make their French counterparts, the Fauves, seem tame by comparison.