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Maurice de Vlaminck

Village Road, Circa 1940

  • Author:
    Maurice de Vlaminck
  • Bio:
    Paris, França, 1876-Paris, França ,1958
  • Title:
    Village Road
  • Date:
    Circa 1940
  • Medium:
    Óleo sobre tela
  • Dimensions:
    46,5 x 56 x 2,5 cm
  • Credit line:
    Doação Aldemar Vidal, 1948
  • Object type:
    Pintura
  • Inventory number:
    MASP.00137
  • Photography credits:
    João Musa

TEXTS


By Luciano Migliaccio and Luiz Marques
An extreme example of the use of material effects in the artist’s work – Winter Landscape (Garage) –, the maritime scene is composed of an uninterrupted chromatic texture, where the interpenetration of sky and sea abolishes the horizon without interfering with the effect of profound depth, which is obtained not by perspective, but by the juxtaposition of dark and light hues, following a method often used by Van Gogh, and before him, by Monticelli. The painting Village Road, dated some time after Seascape with Sailboats is based on a contrary conception to the latter, emphasizing the avoidance of right angles, which, however, fall apart as in an expressionist scene in the manner of the village of Calligari.

— Luciano Migliaccio and Luiz Marques, 1998

Source: Luiz Marques (org.), Catalogue of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo: MASP, 1998. (new edition, 2008).



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