After contributing to the tail end of the Impressionist movement, Paul Gauguin was one of the leading forces of a movement that was later dubbed the "Pont-Aven School". In the late 19th century, the Pont-Aven School brought artists of various styles to the town, united by their appreciation for the fields that ran alongside the Aven and the area's rocky coasts. Between them, they developed concepts such as Synthetism, the practice of only depicting the elements of a painting that are likely to stick in the viewer's memory. Lire la suite |
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| | La Belle Angèle, a painting completed by Gauguin in 1889 and currently on display at the Musée d'Orsay, was inspired by "the beautiful Angèle", an innkeeper. The Hotel des Ajoncs d'Or, then called the Pension Gloanec, played a special role in Gauguin's life: it was one of the preferred meeting places of the Pont-Aven School, Gauguin stayed there, and it was there that he met Émile Bernard, the inventor of Cloisonnism, in 1888. The latter went on to experiment with Synthetism and Symbolism, concepts whose influence continues to loom large over the creative process of artists today. Lire la suite |
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