School of Pont-Aven
The Pont-Aven School was formed by a group of French painters around Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. It was located both in the village of Pont-Aven in the south of Brittany and in the nearby town of Le Pouldu an der Laïta . The name for the artist colony emerged later.
The works of the painters are characterized by the use of pure, bright colors and are attributed to post-impressionism .
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Painters such as Camille Corot and Eugène Boudin and poets such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac had already visited Brittany in the middle of the 19th century , as the rough, pristine landscape of Brittany offered them subjects for their works.
Paul Gauguin stayed in Pont-Aven on several occasions since 1886. Other artists followed - such as Émile Bernard and Paul Sérusier . They tried to overcome impressionism . The art movements of Synthetism and Cloisonism , which represent a counter-movement to Impressionism, grew out of the Pont-Aven school . Her works received great attention from the Nabis , the artists of symbolism and expressionism .
The emphasis on contours and color values while giving up open-air painting was a concern of the Pont-Aven school. The artists created their pictures partly from memory. What was seen was reduced to the essentials, so that shape and color reproduced the painter's moods regardless of reality.
Gauguin left the Breton artists' colony in 1891 and moved to Tahiti . The Pont-Aven school lasted until around 1896.
In Pont-Aven, the Musée de Pont-Aven, which opened in 1985, shows works by artists from Brittany, as well as paintings on Brittany. The museum focuses on the period between 1860 and 1970, when both French and international artists were in the city. There are paintings by Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, for example.
Artists in Pont-Aven or Le Pouldu (selection)
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literature
- Isabelle Cahn / Antoine Terrasse: Gauguin and the school of Pont-Aven . Hirmer, Munich 1998, ISBN 978-3-777-47980-4
- André Cariou: Les Peintres de Pont-Aven , Éditions Ouest-France, Rennes 1994 ISBN 2-7373-1499-2
- Wladyslawa Jaworska: Gauguin et l'Ecole de Pont-Aven , Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel 1971; English edition: Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School , Thames and Hudson, London 1972 ISBN 0-500-23169-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ PW Hartmann: The great art dictionary . beyars, com, accessed December 18, 2009 .
- ^ The Pont-Aven school. kettererkunst.de, accessed December 18, 2009 .