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Maurice de Vlaminck
French painter (1876-1958)
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He painted with colors so violent they shocked Paris in 1905, part of the Fauve wave that treated canvases like arenas for pure, uncut pigment.
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Maurice de Vlaminck was born on April 4, 1876, in France. By 1904 he'd joined André Derain and Henri Matisse in what became the Fauve movement — modern artists united by their use of intense, nearly aggressive color. The group held together through 1908, but it was the 1905 Salon d'Automne that made them notorious, Vlaminck among the figures at the center of the controversy. He continued painting until his death on October 11, 1958, outliving the movement by half a century.
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The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career.
[Picasso is guilty of] having dragged French painting into the most dismal 'impasse' and of having led it into in describable confusion.
[with painting] directly tube against canvas, one soon becomes too slick..
The war [World War 1] gave me a certainty of belief. I grew aware of the bankruptcy of theories, of the theories of intellectuals as well as artists.
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