Maurice de vlaminck picture

When a group of Avant-Garde artists started using bold and unnatural colors to complete paintings in the early 20th century, they were referred to as the “Wild Beasts.”

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958) was a French artist who was one of the leading painters of Les Fauves, a group of artists who radically changed the course of art history.

The Fauvism paintings he produced during this brief period in the first decade of the 1900s are by far the most famous works in his oeuvre.

He never appreciated the Cubist artists and their approach to art and he blamed Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) for the demise of Fauvism.

This was a resentment he held for the rest of his life.

As his career progressed, he gradually gave up the color palette of his Fauvism period and predominantly produced works that resembled the style of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906).

Without further ado, let’s check out some of the most famous paintings by Mau