ocr: Avant-garde Paris Asked Dufy: "Can I render not whatlsee, but what IS, what exists for me, - my reality?" An even nore radical exponent, Maurice de Vlaminck, explained: - - "Twanted to burn down the Ecole des Beaux-Arts with my cobalts and vermilions an I wanted to express my teelings with my prushes without troubling with what painting was like petore me. auvism was tresh and explosive yet att the same time weightless and free of jerman melancholy or angst.
