Word: fauvist
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...artists is American daily life, but the dark, flamboyant style that Henri encouraged among Hopper's fellow students, most notably George Bellows and Rockwell Kent, was not for Hopper. Instead, he went on to Paris, absorbed the lighter palette of the impressionists-and remained totally aloof from the Fauvist and cubist revolutions going on around...
Died. William Zorach, 79, celebrated U.S. sculptor, a Lithuania-born immigrant who began as a Fauvist and Cubist painter in oils, in 1922 gave up his brush for a sculptor's chisel and revived the ancient art of carving directly in stone and wood, producing massive, well-rounded figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine...
...Saidenberg, 1035 Madison Ave. at 79th: Fauvist and cubist works...
GEORGES ROUAULT-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. The prolific Frenchman painted thousands, burned hundreds; 20 oils, spanning 50 years, give a spare but instructive glimpse of his trademarks. Fauvist paintings of 1906-07 show passion for pure color; later, thick black lines begin to silhouette jeweled blues and clarets; the "dawn" paintings of the 1950s burst with chrome yellows and greens. Through March...
...peak, the day of the last race, the sunrise is done in color, and the small red accents of morning light seem to bleed across the screen as the movie changes from black-and-white to color. After Eddie loses the race, the color distorts the world into a fauvist painting, wild and brutally disorganized. For the final moments of disillusionment, Leacock switches back to black-and-white...