Synthetism
Synthetism (of French . Synthétiser : summarize) is an art direction within the post-impressionist art from a union of cloisonnism and Symbolism arose. It can be understood as a counter-movement to pointillism , which emerged around 1888 . The Groupe synthétiste was founded in 1891 by Paul Gauguin , Émile Bernard , Louis Anquetin , Charles Laval and other artists of the so-called School of Pont-Aven . The painters became known through an exhibition in the Paris Café Volpini for the 1889 World's Fair in Paris.
The synthesist artist aimed to combine three things:
- the external appearances of nature
- his own feelings about it
- aesthetic aspects of line, color and shape
The artist wants to create a synthesis of his world of perception and imagination, which he captures painterly from his memory. In their representation, highly simplified images were created that were detached from the mere depiction, often with two-dimensional application of paint and a two-dimensional effect, but with decorative elements. They often used bright, bright colors. Gauguin in particular was influenced by the Japanese woodblock print since 1888 , which led him away from the style of cloisonnism he had only developed in 1887 . He also appreciated the mystical ideas of Japanese artists. In retrospect, Bernard said that Japanese woodcut art had given European artists back then, who had been obsessed with detail, to focus on composition.
The representatives of Synthetism are partly identical with the artist group Les Nabis , which was associated with symbolism .
literature
- J. Rewald: From van Gogh to Gauguin. Cologne 1957
- HR Rookmaker: Synthetist Art Theories. Amsterdam 1959.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monet, Gauguin, van Gogh ... inspiration Japan. Exhibition catalog, ed. from Museum Folkwang with contributions by M. Michiko, G. Irvine, Ch. Dorsz u. a. Steidl Verlag, 2014, pp. 69–77.