Word: vlaminck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went to the museums," he said, "as I went to brothels-but I never Vent upstairs.' " Vlaminck painted at first, with no thought of exhibiting his work. "To be a painter," he once said, "is not a business, any more than to be an anarchist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter...
...Artist. Where the painter of these remarkable canvases might be, nobody who looked at them knew. After France fell, 67-year-old Vlaminck (rhymes with plank) was reported to be well treated by the Nazis (TIME, June 9, 1941). Since then nothing more has been heard of him. Maurice de Vlaminck's father was a Belgian who taught music in Paris. Tall and athletic, young Maurice first supported himself as a professional bicycle racer, later as a Paris nightclub musician. But his real passion was painting...
...Painter Vlaminck met Painter Andre Derain. The two became friends, shared a ramshackle studio. Later Derain, Vlaminck, Henry Matisse and others formed the "Fauves" ("Wild Beasts") group, whose paintings were characterized by uninhibited emotional violence...
...Vlaminck, like all individualists, was irked by artistic schools, even the Fauves. He struck out for himself, began to paint the haunting French townscapes for which he is best known. He also painted flowers whose unusual combination of violence and charm sometimes was achieved by squeezing raw color from the tubes directly onto the canvas...
Soon the late great entrepreneur of modern art, Ambroise Vollard, met Vlaminck who was sporting a wooden necktie which could be painted any color to suit the mood of the wearer. Vollard and other dealers enabled him to buy a small farm near Paris. There, between the wars, Vlaminck lived, with his wife and two daughters. Dressed in an English tweed shooting cap, open-neck shirt, breeches and puttees, Vlaminck farmed, painted, wrote poetry, drove his big racing car at high speed across the countryside. Today, though he probably does not know it, there is a rising U.S. market...