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| André Derain, Henri Matisse, 1905 (Tate, London). Henri Matisse
The Open Window, 1905 (National Gallery of Art, Washington). Maurice de Vlaminck, Pond at Ursine near Chaville, 1905, (Collection Triton Foundation, The Netherlands). Georges Braque, Seascape, 1906 (Madrid, Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza). All images © VBK, Vienna 2013 |
THE ALBERTINA – VIENNA
20 SEPTEMBER 2013 – 12 JANUARY 2014
With 160 exceptional loans, Matisse and the Fauves recalls how Fauvism - the first and briefest avant-garde movement of the 20th century - revolutionized art.
Henri Matisse and his Fauve (“wild animal”) friends André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and Henri Manguin liberated painting from the dictates of the imitation of nature, capturing their motifs with arbitrarily selected and intensely brilliant colors, sketchy brushstrokes and unmodeled color areas.
The exhibition offers new insight on this seminal movement of the avant garde, covering Fauvism's prehistory (1900-1905), the works shown at the 1905 Paris Autumn Salon, landscape paintings, drawings, watercolors, and the influence on fauvist sculpture of a new sculptural aesthetic that originated in the art of Africa and Oceania.
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