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VLAMINCK Maurice de
VLAMINCK (1876 - 1958)
Born in Paris into a Dutch family of music teachers, Vlaminck started out as a bicycle racer. Forced to abandon professional racing, he started giving music lessons. Friends with Derain, Vlaminck took part in the first Fauve exhibition in 1905. Cubism attracted the artist who did not, however, limit his activities to painting. Vlaminck was also a race car driver!
An artist “on the fringe” during his time, his participation in various avant-garde Salons did not prevent Vlaminck from remaining rather traditional; landscapes were his favorite subjects, and sometimes included a hint of expressionism.
Critics usually classify Vlaminck’s work into three major categories: Fauvism, to which he contributed violently, his Cézanne period and finally his expressionist work, often somewhat murky and obstructed; as if this huge anti-intellectual instinctive artist decided to concentrate on the nature scenes that he first saw on the Pont de Chatou.
Vlaminck, the “wildest beast” of all the Fauves, flew the coop in order to paint landscapes where dark, ominous hues prevailed.
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