Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: wilde westen

Vlaminck is often portrayed as the most unruly painter of the fauve school, an impression that reflects both on his personality (as it is revealed in his biography and writings) and his work. A self-taught artist, Vlaminck insisted that painting should be the unmediated expression of an artist’s temperament, „emotive, tender, ferocious, as natural as life itself.“ [1] Indeed, having been an anarchist sympathizer during the prewar period, he would later link the strident colorism and bold brushwork of his work to social and political dissent, a connection that was actually made by several art critics.
John Elderfield, The „Wild Beasts“: Fauvism and Its Affinities [exh. cat., The Museum

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CHARLES BROCK: What I love about it is its wild ambition.

Introduced to painting while recovering from appendicitis at age 19, Henri Matisse abandoned his job as a law clerk to compose conventional Dutch-inspired still lifes and interiors using a somber palette. After moving from northern France to Paris in 1891, his colors brightened and his style evolved under the influence of Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin , and others.
This experimentation—dubbed fauvism (from “wild beasts”)—was a brief but crucial

Whitney Collection, The Tate Gallery, London, 1960-1961, no. 19, repro. 1976 The „Wild

Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
to worship the Babylonian king, has thrown him into a lions’ den, expecting the wild

Venus, as if filled with foreboding about Adonis’s fate, desperately clings to her lover, while he pulls himself free of her embrace, impatient for the hunt and with his hounds straining at the leash. The goddess’s gesture is echoed by that of Cupid, who anxiously watches the lovers’ leave-taking while clutching a dove—a creature sacred to Venus.
’s love for the beautiful young huntsman Adonis, who was tragically killed by a wild

Post-impressionists took the impressionists’ recording of light and color in nature to more emotional and spiritual places. And each artist pursued unique subject matter and a distinctive style. Paul Cezanne was preoccupied with natural forms and spatial depth. Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh expressed themselves through bold color and brushwork.
, André Derain, and Maurice de Vlaminck were among the artists dubbed “fauves” (wild

Impressionism is a style of painting that helped redirect art toward personal expression and artistic process. The movement originated in and around Paris in the late 19th century. Impressionists had stylistic differences, but they shared an interest in accurately capturing modern life and the fleeting effects of light and color.
, André Derain, and Maurice de Vlaminck were among the artists dubbed “fauves” (wild

studio at the time of his death was an illustrated book of exotic animals called Wild

Heade offered viewers an intimate glimpse into the exotic recesses of nature’s secret garden. Lichen covers dead branches;
inspired by the writings of Charles Darwin, the artist studied these subjects in the wild