Word: derain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only inclination that one can have is, progressively, to purify the transfer of nature to canvas." --Andre Derain...
What some people called decadent, others called modern. The Fauve painter Andre Derain complained that "we are the mushrooms on ancient dunghills." But the dunghills produced the art and literature of the modern age, with their deliberate and unprecedented break from history and tradition...
...measure up in comparison? We are beset by a whole range of discontents and confusions. For a great many, the dunghill has become a natural habitat. Derain and other observers of depravity would, in fact, be stunned by the chaos of manners and speech, by the hellish ubiquity of crime and the easy -- one might almost say the democratic -- availability of drugs; by the new varieties of decadence -- rock songs about rape and suicide, pornography at the corner newsstand, commercials for S&M clubs on your friendly cable channel, not to mention telephone...
...Metropolis" does not pretend to cover every kind of image made by artists and craftsmen in the '20s. Its focus is the city, and that alone -- so that although it includes Fernand Leger's The Mechanic, 1920, the arcadian strains in '20s French painting, Matisse and Derain, for example, find no place in it. And quite a lot of lesser art does because -- derivative or coarse though it sometimes is -- it has something to say about the pervasiveness of imagery. Much of Weimar-period German art is a crude mix of De Chirico and cartooning, but one doesn't object...
...FAUVE LANDSCAPE: MATISSE, DERAIN, BRAQUE, AND THEIR CIRCLE, 1904-1908, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In one of the most productive periods of French art, the Fauves, or "wild beasts," created works that shocked the public and . altered the course of 20th century painting. Through...