Episode 39: Maurice de Vlaminck and the Fine Art of Turning Paint Into a Street Fight

Maurice de Vlaminck sounds like a man who should either be dueling at sunrise or dramatically removing gloves before declaring, “Sir, your brushwork offends me.” And honestly? He kind of was. Vlaminck was one of the headline troublemakers of Fauvism, the early-1900s moment when a group of painters looked at reality, shrugged, and said, “What … Read more