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Kees Van Dongen
Blue Grass Races, ca 1957
Early in his career, van Dongen was closely associated with Fauvism, a movement characterized by the use of bold, often unmixed colors to create space and form and evoke emotion. Here van Dongen focuses on the rich color of the Kentucky bluegrass and the bright silks of the riders. The exhilarating finish becomes a blur of color rather than a precisely captured moment. |