Word: vlaminck
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...lessened rather than increased in extent." Furthermore. Romantic Primitivism. the conscious desire to convey the fundamentals of life, arose among various 19th-Century artists before much, if anything, was known of aboriginal art. The Fauves ("Wild Beasts") in France around 1905 found African sculpture an exciting curiosity, but shared Vlaminck's amusement at the pompous way their followers took...
Goldwater shows that Derain. Vlaminck and Matisse themselves borrowed little from such...
...Yellow Cloth last week looked like a masterly success in the highly specialized field which Georges Braque took for his province 30 years ago and has never deserted. A big canvas, almost 5-by-4 ft., it hangs on the same wall with a Picasso Harlequin, a stormy Vlaminck meadow, a Matisse nude and a figure painting by Segonzac. All of these painters except Vlaminck are onetime winners of the Carnegie first prize. The Braque painting rather gained than lost by their company. Why this was true few critics and fewer spectators could say in confident, simple words. But confident...
Gauguin in his break with Impression evolved a new theory of his own, Synthesism, which was followed and carried to an even further degree by such men as Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck. This theory is a conscious grouping of selected forms with strong and evident pattern, while the colors used are absolute rather than naturalistic, effects of sunlight and atmosphere being disregarded...
...Tiens, M. Vlaminck," gravely observed the senior judge. "I will give you confidence for confidence and inform you that mere nakedness does not shock me either...