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Louis Valtat

Louis Valtat (1869 - 1952) was active/lived in France.  Louis Valtat is known for Portrait, figure, still life and landscape painting.

A leading founder of the Fauvist movement, Louis Valtat was an independent and versatile painter.  Fauvist principles required a total liberation of local color in favor of palette of unmixed paint used straight from the tube, often applied with firm, even violent brushwork. Forms are simplified and flattened, giving precedence to a patterned, decorative surface. Although Valtat had painted in this manner for several years, it wasn't until his exhibition in the 1905 Salon d'Automne that the term "Fauves," meaning "wild beasts," came into use, coined by a prominent critic to describe many of the artists exhibiting that year, including Matisse, Vlaminck, Derain, Manguin, Dongen Friesz, Puy and Valtat.

He began his studies at the Hoche secondary school in Versailles, where his parents were living. When he was aged 17 in 1886 (the year when Vincent Van Gogh arrived in Paris for the first time) Louis applied for admission to the Ecole des Beaux Arts, where his teac   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15677 characters.]  Artist bio

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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Louis Valtat available:    Gustave Loiseau,  Georges D'Espagnat,  Maximilien Luce,  Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin,  Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin,  Felix François Georges Philibert Ziem,  Henry Moret,  Eugene Louis Boudin,  Henri Sidaner,  Charles Camoin,  Henri Baptiste Lebasque,  Albert Marquet,  Jean Dufy,  Marcel Dyf,  Andre Hambourg,  Maurice de Vlaminck,  Maxime Camille Louis Maufra,  Maurice (Valadon) Utrillo,  Paul Victor Jules Signac,  Pierre Eugene de Montezin,  Edouard (Jean-Édouard) Vuillard,  Henri Manguin,  Albert Marie Lebourg,  Raoul Dufy



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