Word: friesz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse group (Derain, Braque, Rouault, Vlaminck, Friesz), became one of Matisse's most brilliant disciples. Now he lives in a Montmartre apartment painted the same blue he often uses in his skies. Quiet, looking more like a businessman than a painter, he works strenuously, carries a sketch book everywhere, rarely frequents the cafes or studios of fellow artists...
...Matisse group, called in derision Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), included André Derain, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon Friesz...
With a flourish the Chambrun Galleries invited the New York art world last week to a show proudly titled "Les Trente, a representative showing of the work of 30 modern French painters." The modern French painters bore such disturbingly un-French names as Foujita, Friesz, Kvapil, Carlu, Mutter, Hecht, Van Dongen, but apart from the accident of birth the subtitle was justified. These artists have not only made France their physical and spiritual home, but their training, their technique, their outlook, is as Parisian as a bottle of Pernod. One other thing was noticeable: Les Trente were completely modern...
...Chardin and other Old Masters long before he began to do his own work. But his own work, so soon as he showed it in the Salon des Indépendents, made him the captain of a brave and gay brigade: André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Emil Othon Friesz, Raoul Dufy and indisputably first among them, Henri Matisse...