Word: chardin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them through the Du Mauriesque streets of Paris found them dull or stuffy. The apprentice artists of that day, those who had brains as well as talent, were very ready to study what other men, similarly equipped, had accomplished before them. Matisse spent enough time in the Louvre, copying Chardin and other Old Masters long before he began to do his own work. But his own work, so soon as he showed it in the Salon des Indépendents, made him the captain of a brave and gay brigade: André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Emil Othon Friesz, Raoul...