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André Derain, né le 10 juin 1880 à Chatou et mort le 8 septembre 1954 à Garches , est un peintre français et l'un des fondateurs du fauvisme. Il est également peintre de décors et costumes de ballets et de théâtre, graveur, illustrateur et écrivain.

Salué comme le pionnier d'un nouvel art, le fauvisme, avant la guerre de 1914, il s'oriente après 1918 vers un réalisme au classicisme renouvelé où s'exprime son goût du théâtre et des lettres qui en fait une des figures majeures de l'entre-deux-guerres. Mis en cause à la Libération comme collaborateur, blâmé, Derain apparaît après la Seconde Guerre mondiale comme le survivant d'un ancien monde pour « qui la violence a donné l'illusion de la force ». Wikipedia  

✵ 10. juin 1880 – 8. septembre 1954
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“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.”

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Source: The Wild Men of Paris', 1910, p. 406

“I have found a boat, small with two sails, that would make me happy. Unfortunately, I need one hundred francs.... and I haven't got it! If you want, I could give you two canvases which you could sell, just to make you some many and you could give me the hundred francs... Kahnweiler [Paris' art-dealer] is the only one who gives me money, and just what we need to live on.”

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Quote from Derain's letter, 23 August 1909 to Maurice de Vlaminck, in Lettres à Vlaminck, p. 205; as cited and translated in 'Report: André Derain's 'Trees by a Lake', by F. Whitlum-Cooper and Cleo Nisse http://courtauld.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Report-Derain-by-F-Whitlum-Cooper-and-Cleo-Nisse.compressed.pdf, p. 10 - note 8

“These Africans being primitive, uncomplex, uncultured, can express their thought by a direct appeal tot he 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.”

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Source: The Wild Men of Paris', 1910, p. 407

“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.”

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Quote from Derain's letter to Maurice de Vlaminck, c. 1906; as cited in 'Report: André Derain's 'Trees by a Lake', by Cleo Nisse and Francesca Whitlum-Cooper http://courtauld.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Report-Derain-by-F-Whitlum-Cooper-and-Cleo-Nisse.compressed.pdf, p. 5

“If I paint a girl in the sunlight, it's the sunlight I am painting, not the real girl; and even fort hat 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.”

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Source: The Wild Men of Paris', 1910, p. 407

“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.”

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Source: The Wild Men of Paris', 1910, pp. 406-07

“The Japanese see things that way. They don't paint sunlight, they don't cast shadows that perplex one and falsify the true shape of things. The Egyptian figures have simplicity, dignity, directness, unity; they express motion almost as if by a conventional formula, like writing itself, so direct it is. So I seek a logical method of rendering my idea.”

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Source: The Wild Men of Paris', 1910, p. 407

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