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Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) was a French Fauvist painter.
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PARIS — Paris, where the revolution that changed the political order of Western societies was sparked by an outburst of popular rage, is also the city where an explosion of artistic rage put an end to a thousand-year-old Western tradition of figural art.
This message may not be the point of the book "Vlaminck, un instinct fauve," which accompanies the show on view at the Musée du Luxembourg until July 20, but readers and viewers will decipher it for themselves as they gaze at the œuvre of the man who mattered most among the half-dozen painters at the heart of the Fauve movement.
The quiet Maurice de Vlaminck, born in Paris in 1876, was not the most likely figure for a revolutionary role. His parents were music teachers. The boy learned to play the violin with his father, who later initiated him to musical harmony. His two hobbies, reading popular fiction in illustrated editions and collecting the brightly colored vignettes distributed with coffee packets, did not exactly point to a future career as an artistic firebrand. Nor did his attempts at painting while in his late teens. It all started with a chance encounter when Vlaminck, 23, was about to finish his national service in the army.
On the train that took him to Paris from Chatou in the Paris area, the future artist engaged conversation with another young man, André Derain. The two struck up an instant friendship that would last a lifetime. They decided to spend the next day painting together, and when Vlaminck left the army in September 1900, the aspiring artists rented a studio for a year in which they worked together until Derain in turn went to complete his national service.
How Vlaminck emerged that year as a driving force in the nascent Fauve movement remains a mystery. To sustain himself, he gave violin lessons or performed in bands at night and painted in the daytime. Two paintings, both dated 1900, show that it was then that he broke with the century-old European tradition of individualized portraiture. The precise circumstances in which he painted "Sur le zinc" (At the Bar) and "L'homme à la pipe" (Man Smoking a Pipe), alternatively known as "Le Père Bouju" (Old Bouju), are not known.
"At the Bar" reveals an awareness of Toulouse-Lautrec's snarling portrayals of prostitutes and solitary drinkers, but goes far beyond sardonic scrutiny. In this study of an aging prostitute, Vlaminck makes no attempt at probing the sitter's psychology. This is the impersonal cartoon of a type. The woman's breasts aggressively jut forth under the white dress, in which a flower is stuck, and a cigarette limply hangs from her heavily rouged lips. Drink addiction is suggested by her reddish nose tip. While the woman's features were clearly observed from life, no trace remains of her individuality. Tragedy is conveyed through the expressiveness of contrasting color and oversimplified line. Nothing of the kind had yet seen the light of day in Western art.
In "Old Bouju," similar exaggeration distorts the man's appearance, with his hat tilted at a rakish angle and his red scarf tied around his neck in an attempt at foppishness. Although individual features like the big slanting eyebrows or the high cheekbones are noted, here too Vlaminck chose to paint an expressive type, not to fathom the sitter's personality.
In a telling parallel, Vlaminck, when looking at nature, ignored landscape details, merely seeking an excuse to express his mood through violent color and brushwork. The Fauvist revolution was under way.
"Sous bois" of 1904 is a symphony of colors in which the subject is almost irrelevant. Black strokes purportedly depicting trunks and branches create a staccato rhythm across a space shot through with green, yellow, red and blue. The colors bear no relationship to material reality.
Within a year, Vlaminck made another leap, deconstructing the physical world into colored particles in motion. "Le Pont de Chatou" (The Chatou Bridge) from the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston or "Les Ramasseurs de pommes de terre" (The Potato Pickers) from the Kunststiftung Merzbacher in Küsnacht near Zurich, both done in 1905, are landscapes in name only. While the influence of van Gogh is clear, Vlaminck went further. In "The Chatou Bridge," paint runs down in curving strokes as in some uncontrolled stream of visual consciousness. Black touches punctuate the composition like furious exclamation marks. The wheels of a cart are carmine red and blackish blue. Here, color transcribes turmoil in the mind, not physical perceptions.
In "The Potato Pickers," nature disintegrates into fireworks of color streaks. Four silhouettes, merely outlined, barely maintain a figural character. The temptation to dissolve the visible world into color fragments tumultuously swishing about grew stronger. With "La Seine à Chatou" (The River Seine at Chatou), from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, the shorthand rendition of boats, houses and trees coming above the abstract tapestry of the lower half suggests that Vlaminck was thinking of breaking with figural art.
"Le Verger" (The Orchard) points even more clearly in that direction. The flaming reds, yellows and turquoises jutting forth in the lower half could be rendering colored hallucinations.
We do not know what induced Vlaminck to step back from the brink in 1906. As if his accelerating trip towards abstraction had acted as a visual catharsis, the painter switched to figuration made intensely expressive through color and brushwork.
In "Femme au chien" (Woman With a Dog), the wind seems to be blowing through the broad streaks running down on the woman's dress, and colored accents in shades of blue and ochre swirl behind her as an ill-defined backdrop. Vlaminck started experimenting in every direction. In a "Chatou Landscape" of 1906, a classical composition and a careful color balance go together with unreal colors and the elimination of any detail in the rendition of water and sky, both reduced to faceted surfaces.
A year later, the artist painted the poetic "Les coteaux à Malmaison" (The Malmaison Hillside), in which color bars shoot up. Some suggest trees, others are indistinct. The harmony in light yellows, almond greens and deep blue punctuated by two red patches could be the visual transcription of a musical rhythm.
Vlaminck's landscapes took on a visionary character. In "Chateau aux arbres rouges" (Red Trees at Chatou), swaying trunks painted a deep pink rise against a sky broken up into blue and white facets. Elongated yellowish and salmon volumes on the horizon stand for small constructions. The painter was reconstructing nature in a colored dream.
In 1909, Vlaminck embarked for good on a return trip to the real world, now perceived in a dramatic atmosphere. The houses in his urban views seemed to be tilting sideways. "Cityscape," from the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, has a somber violence, suggested by dark colors, browns and blackish blues, made more tragic by the glaring white facades.
In a magnificent riverside scene, "Voilier" (Sailboat) from the Van der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, Germany, the equally dramatic mood, despite a resurgence of reds and blues, is enhanced by the economy of lines. Vlaminck had some rare flashes of visionary Romanticism. "Riverside" of 1909, a little known masterpiece that surfaced in the Galerie Schmit in Geneva before being sold to a private collector, is a celebration of sunset light emerging from stormy clouds over the mountains.
The sight of early Cubism triggered one last flourish of creative inventiveness. There is a conscious reminiscence of Cézanne's late faceted landscapes in another "Riverside," from the Centre Georges Pompidou, while in some urban views, like "Vins et Liqueurs" (the name of a wine merchant's shop) from a Belgian collection, houses tumble against one another in a drunken dance. As war broke out in 1914, Vlaminck was mobilized. In 1915, while working in an arms factory, he produced his last masterpiece, "Cityscape," also tucked away in a private collection.
War traumatized the painter even though he did not go through the worst of it. Thereafter, Vlaminck endlessly painted dark pictures, whether houses or still lifes, all gleaming under the same white glare, as if obsessed by unshakable memories.
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Maurice de Vlaminck (April 4, 1876 – October 11, 1958) was a French painter. Along with Henri Matisse and André Derain, Vlaminck is considered one of the major figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists known for their use of intense color. Learn more »
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In Chatou, Vlaminck shared a studio with André Derain, an artist who also worked in the realm of Fauvism. The fauvists worked in a style characterized by bold color and sharp, forceful brushwork. This painting shows a sailboat on the right, its bright white sail set against the quaint architecture of the nearby town. Beneath the bridge, men ...
Added: 27 Mar, 2024. Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. 'White Sailboat at Chatou' was created in c.1907 by Maurice de Vlaminck in Fauvism style. Find more prominent pieces of landscape at Wikiart.org - best visual art ...
Rewald 1989 and Klein 1990, identifying the site as the place where the bridge spans the Île de Chatou and the village of Rueil and comparing it to postcards of this smaller arm of the Seine on the Rueil side; notes that the sailboat in the foreground, called a "Chatou monotype," and the tugboat were types that "navigated the Seine at this time".
Sailing boats at Chatou 1906 Artist. Maurice de Vlaminck. France 05 Apr 1876 - 07 Oct 1958 Details. Alternative title Les voiles blanches à Chatou Voiliers à Chatou ... the formidable white sail of the boat that confronts as we approach the picture and that strange splash of orange in the river bank. Look closely at this painting and you ...
He briefly experimented with 'Cubism,' and after attempting his fingers with 'Put up-Fauvism' & 'Realism,' he developed an 'Expressionist' type of portray. Amongst his main works is "The River Seine at Chatou," created within the 12 months 1906. "The River Seine at Chatou," by Maurice is a piece of oil paint on 82.6 cm x ...
Maurice de Vlaminck (French, 1876-1958)
Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse, he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. [1] Vlaminck was one of the Fauves at the controversial Salon d'Automne exhibition of 1905.
The River Seine at Chatou (1906) Portrait of Derain (1905) Le bassin à Chatou (White Sailboat at Chatou) (1907) Town on the Bank of a Lake (ca. 1909) Le pont de Poissy (ca. 1910) Landscape near Martigues (1913) Post navigation.
File information Description Maurice de Vlaminck, 1907, Le bassin à Chatou (White Sailboat at Chatou), oil on canvas, 60.2 x 73.7 cm, private collection . Source impressionists gallery. Date 1907 Author Maurice de Vlaminck. Permission (Reusing this file)This painting by Maurice de Vlaminck is in the public domain in the United States because it was first published in the United States before ...
Vlaminck's landscapes took on a visionary character. In "Chateau aux arbres rouges" (Red Trees at Chatou), swaying trunks painted a deep pink rise against a sky broken up into blue and white facets.
Tugboats on the Seine can be closely compared to other paintings of the river by Vlaminck from 1905 and 1906, such as The Seine at Chatou (Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection), which shows both a remorqueur, or tugboat, and sailboats. The Washington painting is distinguished, however, by its decidedly unpicturesque composition: the tugboat ...
Sailing in Painting: Wassily Kandinsky, The Golden Sail, 1903, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany. This woodblock print by Wassily Kandinsky is inspired by folk art from his native Russian Empire. 6. Sail like a Fauve with Vlaminck. Sailing in Painting: Maurice de Vlaminck, White sailboat at Chatou, 1907, private collection.
Paintings by Maurice de Vlaminck in Chronological Order. Man Smoking a Pipe, 1900. The Gardener, 1904. Sailboats at Chatou, 1905. The Orchard, 1905.
The Seine at Chatou. Autumn Landscape. Barges in Chatou. The Aqueduct at Nogent sur Marne. Potatoe Pickers. Still Life with Basket of Fruit. White Sailboat at Chatou. The Chatou Bridge. The Chestnut Grove at Chatou. Landscape from beyond the River. The River Seine at Chatou. Village on the River. Landscape with Red Trees Chatou. Vase of Flowers ...
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. 'Sailboats at Chatou' was created in 1905 by Maurice de Vlaminck in Fauvism style. Find more prominent pieces of landscape at Wikiart.org - best visual art database.
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White Sailboat at Chatou 1907 by Maurice de Vlaminck
White Sailboat at Chatou - Vlaminck, Maurice de (French, 1876 - 1958) Fine Art Reproductions, Oil Painting Reproductions - Art for Sale at Galerie Dada USA Call +1 860 281 7280
The man in the boat wears a white long-sleeved shirt with a blue cravat at his neck, a crimson-red cummerbund at his waist, blue pants, and a brimmed, straw hat. He turns to look over his right shoulder, and he holds the end of a long oar in his right hand. The surface of the water is painted with short touches of vibrant blue paint.
The Seine and the Chatou Bridge, 1906; The Bridge at Chatou, 1906; Woman With a Dog, 1906; The River Seine at Chatou, 1906; Chatou, 1907; Landscape with Red Roofs, 1907; Landscape with Red Trees Chatou, 1907; The Bridge at Chatou, 1907; Vase of Flowers, 1907; White Sailboat at Chatou, 1907; Potatoe Pickers, 1907; The Chatou Bridge, 1907
# **Maurice de Vlaminck** - *Le bassin à Chatou* (White Sailboat at Chatou), 1907
Added: 27 Mar, 2024. Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. 'Sailboats at Chatou' was created in 1908 by Maurice de Vlaminck in Post-Impressionism style.
Maurice de Vlaminck - white sailboat at Chatou,1907