1905 (ca.), Kees van Dongen, Haystacks -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label:
Following his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam between 1892 and 1897, Van Dongen moved to Paris. In 1906, he moved into a studio neighboring Picasso's workshop in the Batteau-Lavoir district of Montmartre, where he met and befriended many artists, including the Fauve painters Derain and Vlaminck.
Haystacks marks the transition between the painter's early Post-Impressionist production and the clamorous palette and daring figuration of his most iconic period. The theme and the deliberately gestural application of paint appear like a pastiche of one of Van Gogh's scenes of laboring peasants; yet Van Dongen's choice to divide the canvas into two almost equal, roughly monochromatic zones prefigures the bold chromatic juxtapositions of his later work.
1905 (ca.), Kees van Dongen, Haystacks -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label:
Following his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam between 1892 and 1897, Van Dongen moved to Paris. In 1906, he moved into a studio neighboring Picasso's workshop in the Batteau-Lavoir district of Montmartre, where he met and befriended many artists, including the Fauve painters Derain and Vlaminck.
Haystacks marks the transition between the painter's early Post-Impressionist production and the clamorous palette and daring figuration of his most iconic period. The theme and the deliberately gestural application of paint appear like a pastiche of one of Van Gogh's scenes of laboring peasants; yet Van Dongen's choice to divide the canvas into two almost equal, roughly monochromatic zones prefigures the bold chromatic juxtapositions of his later work.