André Derain was a famous French painter and sculptor associated with the Fauve group of artists. Les Fauves is French for the wild beasts. He is best known for his brightly colored landscapes. Famous Andre Derain artworks include “Charing Cross Bridge”, “Portrait of Matisse”, “The Pool of London”, “Window on the Park”, “The Turning Road”, “Fishing Boats, Collioure”, “Bridge Over the Riou”, “Paysage à Cassis”, “Portrait of a Man with a Newspaper”, “The Drying Sails” and “View of Cagnes”.
Mini biography: Born André Derain on the 10th of June, 1880 in Chatou, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France. The artist died on the 8th of September, 1954 in Garches, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France at the age of 74. Derain is buried at the Cimetiere de Chambourcy, Chambourcy, Departement des Yvelines, Île-de-France, France.
List of Famous André Derain Art Quotes
There is only one kind of painting: landscape. It is the most difficult. It has also, I believe, the most simple kind of composition. Because no one can stop us from imagining the world in the way that pleases us most. André Derain
There is often more psychic appeal in a so-called ugly woman than there is in a pretty one; and, in my ideal, I reconstruct her to bring that beauty forth in terms of line or volume. André Derain
These Africans being primitive, uncomplex, uncultured, can express their thought by a direct appeal to the instinct. Their carvings are informed with emotions. So Nature gives me the material with which to construct a world of my own, governed, not by literal limitations, but by instinct and sentiment. André Derain
Cézanne disturbs me. His efforts to achieve perfection are incompatible with the liberty of human thought. He has been searching for the absolute, which inhibits the natural flowering of life. Over-indulgence in reality spells death. André Derain
If I paint a girl in the sunlight, it’s the sunlight I am painting, not the real girl; and even for that I should have the sunlight on my palette. I don’t care for an accidental effect of light and shade, a thing of ‘mere charm’. André Derain
What, after all, is a pretty woman? It’s a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That’s what I paint, another kind of beauty of my own. André Derain
Art Quotes About Andre Derain
Neither Derain, nor myself, were what was conveniently called in this period the bohemians, the bad men: we were simply nonconformists, the outsiders. Maurice de Vlaminck
André Derain Self Portrait Painting
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