French Fauvism: Albert Marquet (part II)

The Port of Naples, 1909

Vue du Palais du Luxembourg

Le Jardin de Luxembourg

Oil on canvas, 38 x 45.9 cm.

Paris, Pont de La Tournelle

Trellis on an Algerian Terrace

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French Fauvisme: Louis Valtat

Louis Valtat (French, 1869 – 1952)

On the Boulevard, 1893

The Flower Garden (1893)

The Port, 1900 c.

Woman Seated in a Garden, 1925

Bouquet of Poppies, Zinnias and Snap Dragons, circa 1939

Les glaieuls à la cruche provençale [Gladioli in a Provencal crock], c.1940. 

Oil on canvas, 81.1 x 65 cm.

Les Blés En Normandie

Louis Valtat (8 August 1869 – 2 January 1952) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Fauves ("the wild beasts", so named for their wild use of color), who first exhibited together in 1905 at the Salon d'Automne. He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Valtat

French Fauvism: Albert Marquet (part I)

Albert Marquet (1875 – 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement.

The Apse of Notre Dame (1901)

Rue de village (c. 1901)

oil on canvas 33.5 x 46.2 cm

 The Louvre Embankment, 1905

House at Saint-Tropez, 1905

Paris Pont Sur La Seine, 1905-06

View of the Seine and the Monument to Henri IV, circa 1906

Poissy, by the Seine, circa 1908

The Bay of Naples at Sunset, circa 1908

Vesuvius  - circa 1909

Flood in Paris, circa 1910

Le Havre, 1911

Vue de Collioure, 1912

The Marne at the Park Saint-Maur, 1913

La femme blonde, 1919

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

L’Ile aux cygnes, 1919

Crans-sur-Sierre, 1936

Tree, 1938

Le port de l’Agha, Alger, circa 1941

Street Scene

Notre-Dame, Inondations

Le port de Marseille, France

River Scene

The port of Marseille

Les Sables d’Olonne

Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturalistic style, primarily landscapes, but also several portraits and, between 1910 and 1914, several female nude paintings.

source: wikipedia

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From Fauve to Cubism: Geoges Braque

L'Estaque, 1906

Centre Goerges Pompidou, Paris

Antwerp, 1906, fauve style

The Gulf, Les Lecques 1906

Houses at L’Estaque, 1908

Viaduct at L'Estaque, 1908

Head of a Woman 1909

Bottle and Fishes, 1910

Portuguese, 1911, cubism

Woman with a Guitar, 1913, cubism

"I couldn’t portray a women in all her natural loveliness… …I haven’t the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is mere a pretext for decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to express the absolute.." 

Georges Braque, 1908

Cubism, one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century, was created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L’Estaque in emulation of Cézanne. Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works "cubes".

Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
In 1909, Braque began to work closely with Picasso, who had been developing a similar approach to oil painting. At the time Pablo Picasso was influenced by Gauguin, Cézanne, African tribal masks and Iberian sculpture, while Braque was mostly interested in developing Cézanne’s idea’s of multiple perspectives. “A comparison of the works of Picasso and Braque during 1908 reveals that the effect of his encounter with Picasso was more to accelerate and intensify Braque’s exploration of Cézanne’s ideas, rather than to divert his thinking in any essential way.” The invention of Cubism was a joint effort between Picasso and Braque, then residents of Montmartre, Paris. These artists were the movement’s main innovators. After meeting in October or November 1907, Braque and Picasso, in particular, began working on the development of Cubism in 1908. Both artists produced paintings of monochromatic color and complex patterns of faceted form, now called Analytic Cubism.