Art April 1991
Fauvists as tourists
On “The Fauve Landscape” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Fauve Landscape,” currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents a murky, soft-focus view of a bright, clear moment in the history of modern art1. Judi Freeman, who organized the show for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has taken what she calls a “site-specific” approach to her subject. This means that she has grouped paintings by Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Dufy, Marquet, Braque, anfd a number of other artists in terms of the locales that they depict—and where, as these are for the most part paintings done directly from nature, they were done. At the Met this results in a series of galleries with captions posted high on the walls that read “Paris,” “Suburbs of Paris,” “St. Tropez,” “Collioure,”...
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