{"id":286,"date":"2018-11-04T17:52:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T01:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/?p=286"},"modified":"2018-11-04T17:55:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T01:55:43","slug":"andre-derain-from-fauvism-to-classicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/2018\/11\/04\/andre-derain-from-fauvism-to-classicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Andr\u00e9 Derain – From Fauvism to Classicism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early Life<\/h1>\n

Born the 17 of June 1880 at Chatou, France, Andr\u00e9 Derain was eleven years younger than the great fauve painter Matisse. Derain received a formal education at the Sainte-Croix-du-V\u00e9sinet institution, then at the Chaptal college in Paris. Derain was, much to the disappointment of his parents, only interested in painting, music, sports and curiosities. He quit college at age 16, with his only outstanding marks being in drawing classes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bateaux \u00e0 Coilloure, Andr\u00e9 Derain, 1905. I really appreciate the vibrance of the blue water as well as the mosaic-like brush strokes applied to mimic reflections.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Early Work and Philosophy<\/h2>\n

In 1900, Derain met Maurice de Vlamnick, who would also become a painter. Derain then frequented the Cari\u00e8re Academy and met Matisse, who convinced the boy\u2019s parents to let him explore a career in painting. Inspired by Vlamnick and Matisse, Derain compared colour to dynamite. He thought colour should be thrown onto the canvas by the tube. His portrait of Henri Matisse clearly demonstrates the young artist\u2019s fire and surety. However, while he did use many bright, vibrant colours, he knew when to temper and flatten them according to composition and subject matter. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Portrait of Henri Matisse, Andr\u00e9 Derain, 1905.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unlike his friend Vlamnick, who hated museums, Derain spent long hours at the Louvre where he found ethnic works that deeply inspired him. He had, like many other young painters of his time, a copyist card which allowed him to go work in front of masterpieces in the gallery. He proceeded to transpose in pure tones <\/span>Le Portement de Croix<\/span><\/i> by Ghirlandaio, using a palette that seemed so violent at the time that he was almost expulsed from the Louvre for \u201cdamaging beauty\u201d. However, if we look at Picasso\u2019s later transpositions of Velazquez\u2019s <\/span>Meninas<\/span><\/i> and Manet\u2019s <\/span>Luncheon<\/span><\/i>, Derain\u2019s modifications to Ghirlandaio\u2019s work seem almost muted in comparison. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Andr\u00e9 Derain, Le Portement de la Croix, copy of Ghirlandaio’s work using bright tones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Growth and Change<\/h2>\n

This exercised restraint was consistent behaviour for Derain. Right from his beginnings as a artist, he had manifested a sort of indecision between his instincts and his culture. Unlike Matisse, he didn\u2019t strive, or wasn\u2019t able, to synthesize the two. Even in the midst of his fauvist period, Derain couldn\u2019t separate himself from the marked taste he had for classic composition. In 1908, this predicament brought him closer to cubist stylization. Later, in 1925, he became one of the principal initiators of the Return to Order, which was a post WW1 movement that <\/span>rejected the extreme avant-garde art of the years up to 1918 and took its inspiration from traditional art instead. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Portrait de Madame Paul Guillaume au grand chapeau, Andr\u00e9 Derain, 1928. An example of his more realism-oriented later work as an initiator of the Return to Order movement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Derain passed the 10th of September in an accident, only weeks before Matisse\u2019s disappearance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paysage en Provence Matrigues, Andr\u00e9 Derain, 1908. Here he makes use of a more cubist composition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Les montagnes \u00e0 Collioure, Andr\u00e9 Derain, 1906. Possibly his most famous work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cited:<\/p>\n

Jean-Louis-Ferier, Les Fauves: Le r\u00e8gne de la couleur, 1992.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia:\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Derain:\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andr%C3%A9_Derain<\/span><\/p>\n

Wikipedia, Return to Order:\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Return_to_order<\/p>\n

Tate Museum,\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Derain:\u00a0https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/artworks\/derain-henri-matisse-t00165<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early Life Born the 17 of June 1880 at Chatou, France, Andr\u00e9 Derain was eleven years younger than the great fauve painter Matisse. Derain received a formal education at the Sainte-Croix-du-V\u00e9sinet institution, then at the Chaptal college in Paris. Derain was, much to the disappointment of his parents, only interested in painting, music, sports and… Continue reading Andr\u00e9 Derain – From Fauvism to Classicism<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-131research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/coraliemayertraynor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}