Many modern Dufy artists avoided depicting flowers and even laughed at those who still wrote them. Only Marc Chagall and Oskar Kokotka can be considered rare exceptions in this series. Dufy also often wrote flowers, and did it brilliantly. He was faithful to flowers until his death.
On the last, unfinished, picture of Dufy the viewer sees a vase with poppies. And the most favorite colors of the artist were anemones. He really liked their color – a combination of scarlet and purple. Dufy tried to convey the charm of the flower, express the feelings that he awakens. His goal was “to create an image of a flower, not seeking to reproduce its appearance exactly, but at the same time, so that the flower appears alive.” A paint smear on paper can often tell about shape and movement much more than the object itself, transforming the real world into images, born of the artist’s imagination “.
The bouquet shown in the painting “Anemones” seems random, but this impression is deceptive. Dufy laid out and shifted flowers for hours before he could create a composition that satisfied him.
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