Word: vlaminck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thirty years ago, a similar poll conducted by Critic Charensol produced an all-star team: Matisse, Maillol, Derain, Segonzac, Picasso, Utrillo, Rouault, Bonnard, Braque and Vlaminck...
...buzzing excitement of Paris' Salon d'Automne, two proper Baltimore sisters looked about them aghast. "Surely," said the older, "we are not expected to take this art seriously!" Even the painters -Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Rouault-were unknowns. It was 1905, and for the two Cone sisters. Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta, it was the year of their baptism into a new world...
Green Hair. The pure Matisse emerged at Paris' Autumn Salon of 1905. His works were hung in a room apart, with those of some other young rebels named Rouault, Derain and Vlaminck. A critic promptly dubbed them Les Fauves-"Wild Beasts." Never since the Dark Ages (when artist-monks symbolized reality, instead of trying to counterfeit it, in their illuminations) had painters used colors so arbitrarily. Matisse's colors were the brightest he could buy, brushed in flat and separated by dancing lines. A tree might be turquoise or tangerine, a river russet, a girl gold, with green...
...stage a retrospective exhibition, devoting a whole room to the works of Cezanne. In 1905 the Salon got what it needed to become a popular fixture: a first-class scandal. Fauvism, expressed in the wildly colored canvases of les fauves (the wild beasts, e.g., Matisse, Marquet, Derain and Vlaminck), caused an artistic riot. Respectable gentlemen insulted each other, shook their ivory-capped canes at the canvases. Raged one critic: "A pot of paint has been thrown in the face of the public...
...painting by Gauguin. A better showing was made in the section called Hommage aux Ainés (homage to the elders), in which were displayed the works of now-famous artists who have shown at the Salon through the years. Among les Ainés: Matisse, Dufy, Utrillo. Picasso, Vlaminck, Braque, Chagall...