Saturday, 9 August 2014

The River Seine at Chatou


Maurice de Vlaminck 
50.2 x 65.1cm
Oil on canvas 

When Vlaminck were looking at nature, he ignored the details of the landscape, looking for excuses to use his style of violent colour and brushwork to express his mood. With “The River Seine at Chatou”, Vlaminck’s thought of breaking with figural art was suggested through his positioning of boats, houses and tree coming above the lower half of the tapestry of abstract.

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