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Marina (Havre)

Maurice de Vlaminck • Painting, 1929, 54.3×65.2 cm
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About the artwork
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Art form: Painting
Subject and objects: Marina
Style of art: Art Nouveau
Technique: Oil
Materials: Canvas
Date of creation: 1929
Size: 54.3×65.2 cm
Artwork in selections: 8 selections

Description of the artwork «Marina (Havre)»

This Marina is written Vlaminck in the period when, consequently, the most significant directions in French painting in those years he developed his own style. Come to him, the artist had an explosion of Fauvism, and then attempt to accommodate within the framework of cubism. By 1911, Vlaminck went beyond both the style and continued to work in his. It is characterized by a more restrained, rather somber palette and free interpretation of forms. A distinctive feature of many paintings of this period a sense of movement.Whether in his landscapes ruled by the wind, or point of perception of them is in the passing car?
It is in this movement Vlaminck now shows your unrestrained temperament.

Another significant moment – very often in landscapes that were created after the First world war, there is a man – visiblyor, as in this case, invisibly.

Marina is written in gloomy colours. Restrained gray and bluish-green color of sea and sky sound in unison with the dark roof, light whitecaps in common with the walls of the houses. The mood of the picture is disturbing, tense, which is characteristic of the majority of works by Vlaminck. Their purpose is to disturb, to embarrass, to excite.

Very indicative in this respect the picture "Sunset in forest". In General, the restrained palette and at the same time more than obvious reminder that Fauvism in his life was. Not just was, Vlaminck said: "What is Fauvism? It's me. This is my style of the era, my way, to rebel and to break free". The artist has moved beyond Fauvism, but not his "way to rebel," now the crimson sun in this gloomy forest? The palette has become calmer, Yes, but the desire to break out, give the brush into the possession of instincts – was left in the Vlaminck.

Author: Alain Esaulova
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