Word: derain
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...painting rediscovered primary color: red, blue, yellow; colors he put down on the canvas right next to each other, vibrating wildly, with no concern for reality. By 1905 many Parisian critics still found the color combinations emerging from this Postimpressionist art peculiar. Matisse and his French followers, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, were nicknamed les fauves (the wild beasts) because they painted lemon yellow and lime green skies above pea green seas upon which sailed geranium red boats. There was another wild color that these Fauves used: white. In Alfred Sisley's Impressionist view of Willows...
...early rooms fizz with life. Before World War I, artists were experimenting like children with a chemistry set. Here are pieces from the studios of the great and the less-great who splashed the lurid colors of the Fauve (Wild Beast) school onto the reality they lived. André Derain's scarlet-haired Woman in a Chemise of 1906 gazes up from a rumpled bed, while Auguste Chabaud's deserted Hotel Corridor of 1907-8 reveals only a suggestive line of light under a door...