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...label. Fauvism was worked out by a small group of artists over a span of three years; it was dead by 1907. It could coarsely be defined as what Matisse and France's Midi region did to half a dozen painters: to Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain, to Raoul Dufy and Georges Braque, to Kees van Dongen and Henri Manguin...
...Derain's The Turning Road, L'Estaque, 1906. Luxe is a clumsily tender Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light. The painting is drenched in idealized wistfulness, even to the title, taken from Baudelaire's L 'Invitation au voyage: "There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, calm and sensuous pleasure." No effort can restore its lost shock value, and this, in a different way, is true of the Derain as well. Today we luxuriate in its weighty design and audacious color...
After 1908 Derain pruned his color to achieve more weighty and old-masterly effects, and was never to regain the same energy. Vlaminck plummeted into coarse self-parody, Dufy tended more and more to crank out pretty little furniture-pictures, and Van Dongen simply fell apart, becoming-in his meaningless virtuosity and appeal to cafe society-an Andy Warhol with red corpuscles. The brief moment of Fauvism was over; naturally, since it was synonymous with youth itself...
...several magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post-no mean sum, in 1907 -and impoverished himself by making serious art at a time when Americans drew little distinction between "fine" and "commercial" work. Dove went to Europe and stayed for two years looking at the work of les Fauves: Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck. He came back in 1909, and never left America again. He could not afford a second trip...
Also: "Art to Wear by Various Artists" at the Evolution Gallery, 142 Newbury St. Sculpture by Andre Derain and Graphics by Henri Matisse at the Pucker/Safrai Gallery, 171 Newbury St.. Paintings by Dan Rosenbluth '75 pottery by the staff of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio at Ticknor Library, Boylston Hall, through Dec. 20 And, finally, "Wish you Were Here" a history of the Picture Postcard (In my hometown, stores used to sell postcards of Alcatraz with that choice phrase in yellow script on the front) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St. in Boston, through Jan.4...