Word: fauvists
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...film is dramatically misshapen: its most singing moments are in the first half. And audiences may be as weary of Stone's haranguing about Vietnam as they are afraid of people with AIDS. But if Stone simplifies and distorts, he often does so brilliantly, like a cartoonist with a Fauvist's eye for the drama in color and character...
...researches into color without distraction. Later he would find this stability by moving permanently to Nice, but it was not available in Paris. Following ) the sun, going south to a domain of purer light and color, had been his obsession since his first trips to Provence in his Fauvist years. In North Africa it produced radiant motifs: the green garden, the white breastlike curves of marabout domes, the angled cuts of shadow in street and alley, the blue haze of light behind ogival arches...
...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...