Sunlight on Water
Maurice de Vlaminck French
Not on view
Maurice de Vlaminck was at the center of an avantgarde movement known as Fauvism. Fauve, meaning “wild beast,” characterized a group of painters closely linked to Henri Matisse, and who flourished in France in the early years of the twentieth century. Fauve painters rejected the Impressionist technique and modulated color in favor of bold brushstrokes and a highly keyed palette. In the first decade of the last century, Vlaminck shared a studio with fellow Fauve André Derain in Chatou, a suburb northwest of Paris. Sunlight on Water is one of his many canvases to explore light and atmosphere, and its collateral colors, in local settings.
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