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Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.
Andre Derain
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Andre Derain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1880
Born: June 10
Died: 1954
Died: September 10
Artist
Choreographer
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Indianapolis
Indiana
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