In 1905 Matisse and his associates, notably André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, caused a sensation at the Salon d'Automne with their brilliantly coloured, raw-factured canvases which earned them the label 'Fauves' (wild beasts). Matisse, however, also...
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Nu Bleau ( Souvenir de Biskra ) 1906 Biskra Arabic: biskra Biskra City and oasis in north-eastern Algeria with 190,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), at the northern edge of the Sahara. Biskra is the centre of the Zab group of oases located in the depression...
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"The new Matisses, seen in the autumn of 1905, were very shocking indeed. Even their handful of defenders were uncertain about them, while their detractors thought them barbaric. Particularly offensive was his use of this discordant colour in the familiar...
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La carrière d'Henri Matisse se laisse diviser en trois périodes: de ses débuts à la Première Guerre Mondiale, de la fin de la Première Guerre Mondiale à la fin de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, de 1945 à sa mort en 1954. À la première période correspond...
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Andre Derain (1880-1954) Derain was one of the founding fathers of fauvism, and one of its wildest practitioners. Influenced by van Gogh and working with Valminck in 1904 he felt that the impressionists had disintegrated their work into dots excessively....
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