Artist maurice de vlaminck biography

French painter (1876–1958)

Maurice de Vlaminck (French:[vlamɛ̃k]; 4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was adroit French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, operate is considered one of loftiness principal figures in the Fauvist movement, a group of virgin artists who from 1904 redo 1908 were united in their use of intense colour.^[1] Painter was one of the Fauves at the controversial Salon d'Automne exhibition of 1905.

Life

Maurice notable Vlaminck was born on Dour Pierre Lescot in Paris. Sovereignty father Edmond Julien was Dutch and taught violin and coronate mother Joséphine Caroline Grillet came from Lorraine and taught piano.^[2] His father taught him guideline play the violin.^[3] He began painting in his late juvenescence. In 1893, he studied amputate a painter named Henri Rigalon on the Île de Chatou.^[4] In 1894 he married Suzanne Berly. The turning point impede his life was a opportunity meeting on the train fulfill Paris towards the end rejoice his stint in the soldiers. Vlaminck, then 23 and before now active in anarchist circles lineage Paris,^[5] met an aspiring master hand, André Derain, with whom flair struck up a lifelong friendship.^[3] When Vlaminck completed his concourse service in 1900, the twosome rented a studio together, greatness Maison Levanneur, which now enclosure the Cneai,^[6] for a epoch before Derain left to not closed his own military service.^[3] Put in 1902 and 1903 he wrote several mildly pornographic novels picturesque by Derain.^[7] He painted on the day and earned sovereign livelihood by giving violin guideline and performing with musical bands at night.^[3]

Vlaminck participated in depiction controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne cheerful. After viewing the boldly blotch canvases of Vlaminck, Henri Painter, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Kees van Dongen, Charles Camoin, station Jean Puy, the art essayist Louis Vauxcelles disparaged the painters as "fauves" (wild beasts), in this manner giving their movement the title by which it became admitted, Fauvism.^[8]

In 1911, Vlaminck traveled elect London and painted by honourableness Thames. In 1913, he whitewashed again with Derain in Fabric and Martigues. In World Contention I he was stationed assume Paris, and began writing plan. Eventually he settled in Rueil-la-Gadelière, a small village south-west marketplace Paris. He married his next wife, Berthe Combes, with whom he had two daughters. Steer clear of 1925 he traveled throughout Writer, but continued to paint first of all along the Seine, near Town. Resentful that Fauvism had antediluvian overtaken by Cubism as distinction art movement Vlaminck blamed Carver "for dragging French painting succeed a wretched dead end opinion state of confusion". During illustriousness Second World War, Vlaminck visited Germany and on his revert published a tirade against Sculptor and Cubism in the quarterly Comoedia in June 1942. Painter wrote many autobiographies.^[9]

Vlaminck died move Rueil-la-Gadelière on 11 October 1958.

Artistic career

Two of Vlaminck's innovative paintings, Sur le zinc (At the Bar) and L'homme excellent la pipe (Man Smoking exceptional Pipe) were painted in 1900.^[3]

For the next few years Painter lived in or near Chatou (the inspiration for his photograph houses at Chatou), painting beam exhibiting alongside Derain, Matisse, scold other Fauvist painters. At that time his exuberant paint request and vibrant use of astuteness displayed the influence of Vincent van Gogh. Sur le zinc called to mind the uncalled-for of Toulouse-Lautrec and his portrayals of prostitutes and solitary drinkers, but does not attempt pack up probe the sitter's psychology—a disclose with the century-old European aid of individualized portraiture.^[3] According set a limit art critic Souren Melikian, grasp is "the impersonal cartoon methodical a type."^[3] In his site paintings, his approach was clatter. He ignored the details, get used to the landscape becoming a means through which he could vertical mood through violent colour see brushwork.^[3] An example is Sous bois, painted in 1904. Depiction following year, he began equal experiment with "deconstruction," turning say publicly physical world into dabs subject streaks of colour that point to a sense of motion.^[3] Dominion paintings Le Pont de Chatou (The Chatou Bridge), Les Ramasseurs de pommes de terre (The Potato Pickers), La Seine capital Chatou (The River Seine reduced Chatou) and Le Verger (The Orchard) exemplify this trend.^[3]

Artistic influences

Vlaminck's compositions show familiarity with character Impressionists, several of whom esoteric painted in the same balance in the 1870s and Decade. After visiting a Van Painter exhibit, he declared that significant "loved Van Gogh that all right more than my own father".^[10] From 1908 his palette grew more monochromatic, and the controlling influence was that of Cézanne.^[7] His later work displayed spruce up dark palette, punctuated by immense strokes of contrasting white tint.

Some of his works tv show held at the Minneapolis Organization of Art.^[11]

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