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Sticks of Dynamite. To represent himself better, he took the brightest paints he could find and laid them on in exuberant stabs and slashes. His friend Derain called Matisse's colors "so many sticks of dynamite," and in the Paris Autumn Salon of 1905 the stuff exploded. Matisse's paintings had been put in the same room with those of other crazy young men: Rouault, Dufy, Derain and Vlaminck. Almost everyone who peeked into that room came away reeling with outrage. The new painters were just fauves, they decided-wild beasts-and Henri Matisse the wildest...
Could Paris produce a new generation of painters comparable to its aging masters? Matisse, Bonnard and Rouault were all crowding 80, Picasso and Braque were close to 70. Utrillo, Vlaminck and Derain were old too, and out of the swim as well. Surrealism was all but dead. As of last week, only one "group" of painters in Paris had any recognizable form. They were "the twelve."* Nine of the twelve have already had shows this season...
Four of the painters in the show, Derain (66), Van Dongen (67), Segonzac (63), and Vlaminck (70), had been suspended from public showing for the past year (because they exhibited in Berlin during the war). Now their year of quiet humiliation was up, and the weary old foursome could creep into the daylight once again...
...weird orchards of modern art. Their shabby Latin Quarter ateliers held the first green fruits of freedom. The sidewalk cafés of Paris rocked and rang with their back-slapping and boasting. Les Fauves, "the wild beasts" and their far-from-tame friends had taken over-Matisse, Braque, Derain, Duchamp, Rouault, and Picasso in command...
Vlaminck, Derain, Segonzac and Despiau were not exhibiting. They belonged to the Groupe du voyage à Berlin (the group that traveled to Berlin). Conspicuously absent non-collaborators were Dufy (frail but still painting in Perignan) and Rouault (secluded in Brittany...