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Matthew Schulte
I'm Matthew Schulte and this is the Owsley moment. Brought to you by the David Owsley Museum of Art, the Ball State School of Art and IPR.

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Matthew Schulte
In his 1906 painting Under the Trees one, André Lhote painted a closely cropped and vibrantly colored forest. Several pink, red and brown trees emerged from the bottom of the composition and meander around the picture plain before extending past the top and side borders of the canvas. Thick blue and green bushes, painted in short and choppy strokes, occupy the lower right corner, while smooth, curved leaves cover the forest floor in the lower left.

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Matthew Schulte
The space between the tree branches and the middle ground is filled with acidic yellows and greens, and jagged patches of white and cream paint at the top give the impression of light filtering through the tree canopy. The thick layers of paint and frenzied brushwork, combined with the saturated and exaggerated colors, make this a great example of Fauvism. Fauvist artists like Lhote paired painterly and bright colors to express intense emotions.

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Matthew Schulte
Their color palettes did not always accurately represent the places or objects they painted, and often seemed savage to contemporary viewers, which is what led one particularly outraged credit to call them fauves, a term that means wild beasts in French. In Under the Trees one, Lhotes of use of varied and saturated colors pinks, purples, teals, greens and blues communicates the excitement and energy of a verdant, flourishing forest.

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Matthew Schulte
One we'd like to thank Ball State student Stacia Schmidt for her research.

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