Maurice de Vlaminck
Maurice de Vlaminck | |
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Born | Paris, France | 4 April 1876
Died | 11 October 1958 Rueil-la-Gadelière, France | (aged 82)
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Fauvism |
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.
Life
Maurice de Vlaminck was born on Rue Pierre Lescot in Paris. His father Edmond Julien was Flemish and taught violin and his mother Joséphine Caroline Grillet came from Lorraine and taught piano.[2] His father taught him to play the violin.[3] He began painting in his late teens. In 1893, he studied with a painter named Henri Rigalon on the Île de Chatou.[4] In 1894 he married Suzanne Berly. The turning point in his life was a chance meeting on the train to Paris towards the end of his stint in the army. Vlaminck, then 23 and already active in anarchist circles in Paris,[5] met an aspiring artist, André Derain, with whom he struck up a lifelong friendship.[3] When Vlaminck completed his army service in 1900, the two rented a studio together, the Maison Levanneur, which now houses the Cneai,[6] for a year before Derain left to do his own military service.[3] In 1902 and 1903 he wrote several mildly pornographic novels illustrated by Derain.[7] He painted during the day and earned his livelihood by giving violin lessons and performing with musical bands at night.[3]
Vlaminck participated in the controversial 1905 Salon d'Automne exhibition. After viewing the boldly colored canvases of Vlaminck, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Kees van Dongen, Charles Camoin, and Jean Puy, the art critic Louis Vauxcelles disparaged the painters as "fauves" (wild beasts), thus giving their movement the name by which it became known, Fauvism.[8]
In 1911, Vlaminck traveled to London and painted by the
Vlaminck died in Rueil-la-Gadelière on 11 October 1958.
Artistic career
Two of Vlaminck's groundbreaking paintings, Sur le zinc (At the Bar) and L'homme a la pipe (Man Smoking a Pipe) were painted in 1900.[3]
For the next few years Vlaminck lived in or near Chatou (the inspiration for his painting houses at Chatou), painting and exhibiting alongside Derain, Matisse, and other Fauvist painters. At this time his exuberant paint application and vibrant use of colour displayed the influence of
Artistic influences
Vlaminck's compositions show familiarity with the
Some of his works are held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.[11]
Notes and references
- ISBN 1-55859-025-0
- ISBN 0-313-28333-8.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Melikian, Souren. "Vlaminck: Expressing mood with color", International Herald Tribune, 11 July 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
- ^ Freeman, page 319.
- ^ Patricia Leighten, 'A Politics of Technique' in Anarchism and the Avant-Garde (Brill: Amsterdam, 2019), p73f
- ^ Cneai
- ^ a b Freeman, p.319.
- ISSN 1149-9397
- ^ Freeman, pages 123, 319
- ^ Freeman, pp.15-21
- ^ "Maurice de Vlaminck ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art". collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
External links
- Maurice de Vlaminck on artnet
- 75 images of de Vlaminck's painting art, on Wikiart
- Maurice de Vlaminck - Biography
- Works by Maurice de Vlaminck (public domain in Canada)