Word: fauvists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fauve painting might keep so much as an erg of its old offensive power. "To look again at these exquisitely decorative paintings," writes Elderfield in his admirable catalogue essay, "is to realize that the term Fauvism tells us hardly anything at all about the ambitions or concepts that inform Fauvist art. 'Wild Beasts' seems the most unlikely of descriptions for these artists...
...from the fluent immediacy of the crayon sketch to the lyrical color study to the painting, the art loses itself in an exercise, becomes stilted, studies. The line drawings for the "Girl with a Ball" (1907-8) reveal a great sensitivity to form, the color studies a highly developed Fauvist technique, in which an unrestricted palette expresses shape and perspective. But as Kupka notes on one sketch: "here...maybe I am regressing to the post card." And the final result is a very indifferent painting--as the artist evidently felt himself, judging by the number of times he reworked...
Died. André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 90, well-known French painter and printmaker; of bronchitis; in Paris. Inspired by Corot and Courbet, the young aristocrat shunned the early 1900s revolutionary experiments of his Fauvist and Cubist Parisian friends and bought a house in the south of France, where he painted gentle, Cézannesque still lifes and landscapes glimmering with the unique southern light. Retaining and refining his style throughout his lifetime, Segonzac won and kept the respect of artists, critics and collectors...
Died. Pär Lagerkvist, 83, titan of Swedish literature and 1951 Nobel laureate; following a stroke; in Stockholm. The rebellious son of devout Lutheran peasants, Lagerkvist was enchanted with the Fauvist and Cubist artists of pre-World War I Paris. After experimenting with expressionism in a host of early, pessimistic poems and plays, Lagerkvist, who described himself as "a religious atheist," later developed the starker, more realistic prose style necessary to his vision of humanitarian idealism. In the U.S., he was best known for The Dwarf (1945), a bitter, allegorical novel about human greed, and Barabbas (1951), an enigmatic...