Word: gauguin
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...some crucial events of its growth. One of them happened in France in the late 1880s, within a group of painters-some now familiar to us as secular saints or movie heroes, others still relatively ill-known -who kept venturing out of Paris toward more "primitive" places. Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard ranged among the megaliths, the cold heather and the gaunt folk-Christs in Brittany. Vincent van Gogh pursued what he called "the gravity of great sunlight effects" in Aries...
...popular woodcuts known as the images d'Epinal and, above all, the Japanese wood-block prints that had been arriving in France in a steady trickle for the quarter of a century since Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay. What these influences produced, in the work of Van Gogh, Gauguin and the various painters who were, at one moment or another during the late '80s, linked to their work (among them, Maurice Denis, Louis Anquetin, Emile Bernard, Paul Serusier and Toulouse-Lautrec) was a style known as cloisonism. The French cloison means "division" or "partition," and it was applied...
...moves to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh in Amsterdam. (It will not come to the U.S.) The exhibition includes a large group of major paintings by Van Gogh, mostly from his time in Aries and St.Rémy. They are backed up with an extraordinary selection of some 30 Gauguins and many remarkable paintings by the "disciples"-including Bernard, who turns out, like Anquetin, to have been a painter of real originality who can now be seen without Gauguin's shadow across him. This ambitious curatorial effort is the work of the Canadian art historian Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov...
...work of the painter will be something like painting by compartments, analogous to cloisonne ..." If impressionism had banished the boundary line from art, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues put it back with a vengeance...
...whereby a single form could harbor two or more literal meanings: a glass of absinthe including a drunkard's head, a guitar turning into a torso or a vagina, a bicycle seat becoming a bull's head. Moreover, the ability to handle allegory was the proof of high ambition: Gauguin had gone to Tahiti to paint huge emblems of human fate, not just to see papayas...