Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin provides a new interpretation of Gauguin's art. Reconstructing the artist's changing painting techniques, Jirat-Wasiutynski and Newton demonstrate that Gauguin's technical choices were meaningful. Beginning in 1886, Gauguin produced monumental figure paintings using full-scale cartoons to prepare them in a manner similar to that of the Quattrocento fresco painters. In the following years, brushwork and impasto disappeared from his paintings, producing works that contemporaries described as "primitive" and "decorative." Indeed, the authors argue, Gauguin's abandonment of oil painting was deliberate and signaled a rejection of modern Western culture and society.
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"This very scholarly and well-researched book traces Gauguin's development as an artist...Reproductions are detailed and beautiful." Choice
"[The authors] draw on the results of scientific study of Gauguin's canvases to show how the use of unorthodox techniques and materials can be linked with the 1primitivism' of earlier European and non-European arts, particularly with the bold painting of early Renaissance frescoes....Rich in ideas and methods that that should reinvigorate the study of late-nineteenth century art..." New York Review of Books
"[The authors] draw on the results of scientific study of Gauguin's canvases to show how the use of unorthodox techniques and materials can be linked with the 1primitivism' of earlier European and non-European arts, particularly with the bold painting of early Renaissance frescoes....Rich in ideas and methods that that should reinvigorate the study of late-nineteenth century art..." New York Review of Books
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Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin provides a new interpretation of Gauguin's art. Reconstructing the artist's changing painting techniques, Jirat-Wasiutynski and Newton demonstrate that Gauguin's technical choices were meaningful. Beginning in 1886, Gauguin produced monumental figure paintings using full-scale cartoons to prepare them in a manner In the following years, brushwork and impasto disappeared from his paintings, producing works that contemporaries described as "primitive" and "decorative". Indeed, the authors argue, Gauguin's abandonment of oil painting was deliberate and signaled a rejection of modern Western culture and society.
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absorbent chalk ground, infrared vidicon system, monumental figure paintings, infrared reflectograph, thin white ground, absorbent grounds, tacking margins, canvas weave, painting sunflowers, visible brushwork, coarse support, monumental decoration, decorative aesthetic, unprimed canvas, figure format, chalk grounds, vanguard art, paint layer, girl spinning, preparatory drawings, spatial recession, prepared canvas, studio drawings, lead white, boys wrestling Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vincent van Gogh, Four Breton Women, Meijer de Haan, Fruit Picking, Breton Girl, Van Gogh Museum, Women Bathing, Seaweed Gatherers, Marie Henry, Paul Gauguin, Theo van Gogh, Emile Bernard, Madame Roulin, Mette Gad, National Gallery of Art, Puvis de Chavannes, Camille Pissarro, Market Gardens of Vaugirard, New York, Portrait of Mette Gauguin, Breton Eve, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Universelle, Gustave Arosa, Breton Shepherdess New!
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Paul Gauguin became the vanguard artist that we know in Paris in the 1870s and 1880s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
absorbent chalk ground, infrared vidicon system, monumental figure paintings, infrared reflectograph, thin white ground, absorbent grounds, tacking margins, canvas weave, painting sunflowers, visible brushwork, coarse support, monumental decoration, decorative aesthetic, unprimed canvas, figure format, chalk grounds, vanguard art, paint layer, girl spinning, preparatory drawings, spatial recession, prepared canvas, studio drawings, lead white, boys wrestling Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Vincent van Gogh, Four Breton Women, Meijer de Haan, Fruit Picking, Breton Girl, Van Gogh Museum, Women Bathing, Seaweed Gatherers, Marie Henry, Paul Gauguin, Theo van Gogh, Emile Bernard, Madame Roulin, Mette Gad, National Gallery of Art, Puvis de Chavannes, Camille Pissarro, Market Gardens of Vaugirard, New York, Portrait of Mette Gauguin, Breton Eve, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Universelle, Gustave Arosa, Breton Shepherdess New!
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