Andre derain paintings mountains at collioure
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Andre Derain Mountains At Collioure
Mountains at Collioure is a painting created by French painter André Derain. It was painted while he was working with Henri Matisse at the angling port of Collioure, in France.
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Mountains At Collioure Analysis
The work features long strokes of splendid green, blue, mauve, and pink. The whole scene is under a jade and turquoise sky. The mountains are imagined as flat moving zones. The grass and trees are painted with small strokes that resemble "sticks of explosive," as described by Derain. The small strokes within the branches of the tress appear different in relation to size of the mountains which were painted as expansive flat lines and there is no shadow to show separation between the different mountains.
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Mountains at Collioure (Les montagnes à Collioure)
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Title:Mountains at Collioure (Les montagnes à Collioure)
Artist:André Derain (French, Chatou – Garches)
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Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions × 39 1/2 in. ( × cm)
Frame: 42 1/2 × 50 × 3 3/8 in. ( × × cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:National galleri of Art, Washington, D.C., John Hay Whitney Collection ()
Object Number:MaDe
Rights and Reproduction:© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Robert Lehman Collection at
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Introduction
In the early summer of , Henri Matisse invited his young friend André Derain to join him on the French Mediterranean for a few weeks of painting and drawing. Their fabled partnership in the small fishing village of Collioure would forever change the course of French painting. In freewheeling experiments, they explored color and light on the beaches and in the surrounding hills, exercises that led their contemporaries to reconsider the nature of brushwork and the role of color in their practice. When the astonishing new paintings were shown at the Salon d’Automne in Paris, critics derided their radical departure from convention. One critic called these artists les Fauves (literally “wild beasts”).
So, what were Matisse and Derain doing in Collioure that caused such a stir? They redefined color in the natural world. Rather than painting perceptually, loyal to nature’s hues, they relied on their own sensations, processing color through experience. Experimenting with p