André Derain (June 10th 1880 - September 8th 1954) is a painter, illustrator and sculptor French, and one of the founders of the Fauvisme, from which it will move away later. Recognized of alive sound, he was criticized later by some for his late return to pictorial forms considered as " traditionnelles".
Its life and its work
Derain was born with Chatou in Île-de-France. It made its period of formation of 1898 with 1899 with the Academy Camillo with Eugene Carrière a friend of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes where it binds with Henri Matisse, that it meets by copying tables with the Louvre. In 1900, it met Maurice de Vlaminck in a train, with which it divided a studio, and started to paint its first landscapes. Autodidact, it attends much the museums and nourishes his esthetic reflection of a great number of readings (Zola, Nietzsche…). With Van Gogh that he discovers in 1901 and which will have a determining influence are added those of the Néo-impressionnistes and especially of Paul Cézanne. It joined Matisse with Collioure in 1905 and in this occasion the style defines which will make known it general public: bright colors, simplified drawing, clear composition. He is then regarded as one of the best representatives of the Fauvisme. In 1906 and 1907 it is upset by the Primitive arts and in close relation with Matisse, it continues reflection on the bonds between decoration and expression. It is interested in decorative arts: ceramics, low-reliefs out of wooden, sculpture, carry out large panels on the topic of the golden age, the dance, or the women with the bath. After 1906, it seems influenced by Gauguin, its colors become less sharp. But the following year he attends the Bateau-Lavoir, meets Picasso and Matisse with which he travels to Barcelona in 1910, Braque, Apollinaire, Van Dongen and max Jacob. He discovers and collects what one called the negro Art and he seems, a time, to follow the influence of Picasso but will not go beyond the pre-cubism and will end up breaking with him after 10 years of friendly relations. In 1907, it was tested with the sculpture on stone and moved with Montmartre to approach his/her friend Pablo Picasso and other known artists.Derain illustrated the first book of poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire, the Enchanter pourrissant (1909), and a collection of poems of max Jacob in 1912. In 1916, it provides illustrations for the first book of André Breton, Mont of Piety . As of 1911, it returns to an invoice which seems more traditional: it starts a return to the prospect, and theobscure one.
In 1914, it is the First World War and Derain joined a regiment.
After its military service during the First World War, the world of art receives it with open arms. In 1919, it puts its talent at the service of the Ballet the odd Shop for Diaghilev, of the Russian Ballets. These is a great success which leads it to create many decorations and costumes of ballets.
Its reputation still grows when it receives the Prix Carnegie in 1928 and starts to expose in the whole world: with London, Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, New York and Cincinnati.
During the German occupation of France at the time of the Second world war, Derain lives with Paris and is courted by the Germans like prestigious symbol of the French culture. It accepts an invitation for an official visit in Germany in 1941. Propaganda Nazie makes great use of this voyage and Derain is treated of collaborator and is ostracized by much after the Release.
After the war, it gives up the public presentations of its works. In 1944 it refuses the direction of the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts (ENSBA). It finishes its life in a voluntary loneliness.
He dies in Garches in the Hauts-de-Seine the September 8th 1954.
Today its paintings are very with dimensions on the market of Article.
Presentation of work
Its work is sometimes regarded as unequal but she strongly testifies to the concerns of the artists of her time: art is related to one historical time, the artists cannot simply reproduce what their elder did but they must however take account of their lessons.
The work of Derain is primarily pictorial but it also signed the decorations and the costumes of many ballets, illustrated about thirty books, it is also known as sculptor.
External bonds
- Andre Derain in Artcyclopedia
- Andre Derain: A Virtual Art gallery
- Andre Derain Works - has Gallery
- André Derain the multiplicity of the ways
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