Cloisonnism
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Cloisonnism is a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours. The term was coined by critic Édouard Dujardin on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants , in March 1888. [1] Artists Émile Bernard , Louis Anquetin , Paul Gauguin , Paul Sérusier , and others started painting in this style in the late 19th century. The name evokes the technique of cloisonné , where wires ( cloisons or "compartments") are soldered to the body of the piece, filled with powdered glass, and then fired . Many of the same painters also described their works as Synthetism , a closely related movement.
In The Yellow Christ (1889), often cited as a quintessential cloisonnist work [ by whom? ] , Gauguin reduced the image to areas of single colors separated by heavy black outlines. In such works he paid little attention to classical perspective and eliminated subtle gradations of color — two of the most characteristic principles of post- Renaissance painting.
The cloisonnist separation of colors reflects an appreciation for discontinuity that is characteristic of Modernism . [2]
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Émile Bernard Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin, dedicated to Vincent van Gogh. Bernard, 1888
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Émile Bernard , Breton Women in the Meadow , August 1888.
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Louis Anquetin , Reading Woman, 1890
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- ↑ Dujardin, Édouard: Aux XX et aux Indépendants: le Cloisonismé (sic!), Revue indépendante, Paris, March 1888, pp. 487-492
- ↑ Review by William R. Everdell of The First Moderns, Profiles in the Origin of Twentieth-Century Thought University of Chicago Press, 1997 retrieved March 27, 2010
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