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Oct 8, 2018 · Gauguin and Laval’s friendship dissolved when Laval married Madeleine Bernard, the sister of a mutual friend, the painter Émile Bernard. Gauguin was also in love with Madeleine, and he not only ...
Gauguin thought he had been particularly successful at such abstraction in Self-Portrait with Portrait of Emile Bernard (Les misérables). Referring to the delineation of the face, he wrote that this was a ‘total abstraction’ and the palette ‘quite far from nature’. 16 Paul Gauguin, letter to Emile Schuffenecker, 8 October 1888, in ...
Bernard painted this self-portrait in the French seaside village of Pont-Aven. He was working there with Paul Gauguin (shown in the background of the picture). A Japanese woodcut print is visible at bottom right.<br><br>Van Gogh had asked his two friends to make portraits of each other. But Bernard didn’t dare: he was only 20 and intimidated by Gauguin, who was twice his age. So each of them ...
Le terme "Synthétisme" a été inventé en 1889 lorsque Paul Gauguin et Émile Schuffenecker ont organisé une exposition intitulée "L'Exposition de peintures du groupe impressionniste et synthétiste" au café Volpini à l'occasion de l'Exposition Universelle de Paris. Ce titre déroutant reconnaissait les racines impressionnistes des ...
Synthetism, in art, method of painting evolved by Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, and others in the 1880s to emphasize two-dimensional flat patterns, thus breaking with Impressionist art and theory. The style shows a conscious effort to work less directly from nature and to rely more upon memory.
Between 1888 and 1891, Émile Bernard together with Gauguin was the creator of Synthetism, the tendency that marked a historical turn in European painting after Impressionism.
The artists, including Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Charles Laval, and Emile Schuffenecker, called themselves the “Groupe Impressioniste et Synthétiste,” but they are better known today as the Pont-Aven School, after a town in the French province of Brittany where many of the artists painted.
