(Click to Bid – 6x12 Acrylic on canvas board)
My latest studio landscape is a bit of a high key colorist piece. It is of Washington Park in Denver. The view is looking west toward South Lake on a sunny day. I pushed the colors chroma, and made them very intense, as the Colorado sun can be. The title refers to the Fauvist painting movement that began around 1904, which included the likes of Henri Matisse, Andre Derain and even Georges Braque, who later became Picasso's partner in Cubism. The movement was characterized by energetic brushwork, jarring colors for the time, and a simplified, abstracted subject matter. At the Salon d'Autome of 1905 in Paris, the critic Louis Vauxcelles disparaged the painters as fauves, wild beasts, thus giving their movement the name by which it became known, Fauvism.
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