Musée du Luxembourg presents 'Vlaminck ~ A Fauvist Instinct'

Written by Louis Paterson Wednesday, 16 February 2011 23:03

 

Paris - Musée du Luxembourg presents 'Vlaminck - A Fauvist Instinct'. This exhibition brings together works of the period 1900-1915, from Maurice de Vlaminck’s (1876-1958) earliest known paintings - Vlaminck’s career started when he was 17, but none of his juvenalia has been preserved - in which he already asserted his characteristic violence, down to the works produced at the beginning of the First World War, which reflect his contemporary research on the rendering of space.  On exhibition February 20 - July 20 2008.

An overview of Vlaminck’s production at that time reveals the key part he played in the renewal of painting which started in the early 20th century, the inventiveness of the research he undertook with Derain and which made Chatou one of the most active centres of that renewal.

Maurice de Vlaminck’s work, during that time of important questioning and aesthetic transformations, ought to be considered both through its relation with the post-impressionistic generation that had preceded him (Van Gogh, Gauguin, the Nabis, Cézanne, Signac) and for his tremendous audacity which allowed for all sorts of excess in expressive gesture, color paroxysm and selective deformation: “I heightened all the tones, I transposed all the feelings I could perceive into my orchestration of pure colors. I was a tender, wild at heart barbarian” (Dangerous Corner, 1929).

Visit Musée du Luxembourg at :  www.museeduluxembourg.fr/ 

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