Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin - Rilegato

Jirat-Wasiutynski, Vojtech; Newton Jr, H. Travers

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ISBN 10: 0521642906 ISBN 13: 9780521642903

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Riassunto

This title 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. Examining the artist's work during a critical formative period, they demonstrate the impact of Impressionistic artistic practice and critical debate on his achievements. 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, as Gauguin began to imitate wax, tempera and fresco, producing works that contemporaries described as 'primitive'. Indeed, the authors argue, Gauguin's experimentation with the look of oil painting was deliberate and signaled a rejection of modern Western culture and society. Using Gauguin as a case study, Jirat-Wasiutynski and Newton argue that use of historical painting techniques has specific cultural meanings.

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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

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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, the authors demonstrate that Gauguin's technical choices were meaningful, and that his experimentation with the look of oil painting was deliberate and signaled a rejection of modern Western culture and society.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521642906
• ISBN 13: 9780521642903
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312