Gauguin: Colour LibraryPaul Gauguin (1848-1903) was one of the most formidable artists of the late nineteenth century, and one whose work was to have a profound influence on the development of art in the twentieth century. He began as an Impressionist, but went on to develop a more two-dimensional, richly-coloured style in his constant search for a 'lost paradise' untouched by nineteenth-century civilization. Gauguin's romantic and tragic life story is mirrored in the works in this outstanding anthology. Included are 48 full-page colour plates, not only of his best known, beautiful , atmospheric paintings of Tahiti in which Gauguin attempted to reconstruct the perfect life which he had failed to find in reality, but also of many powerful works which reflect the artist's contact with other early modern masters - Degas, Van Gogh, Cézanne. Art historian Lesley Stevenson has written an informative, clear commentary to accompany each colour plate. |
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Aline Arles arrived artist attempt back in Paris background Bernard Bonjour Monsieur Borobudur Brittany Carlsberg Cézanne Charles Laval Chicago COLOUR LIBRARY PHAIDON Contes Barbares Copenhagen Courbet Daniel de Monfreid Degas depicted Durand-Ruel's Émile Bernard figures Folkwang Museum foreground Four Breton Women French Gallery of Art Garden of Olives Gauguin had seen Gauguin wrote Hermitage Museum Hina Hivaoa Ia Orana Maria Impressionist Impressionist exhibition Japanese landscape Laval Le Pouldu London Loss of Virginity Manao Tupapau Manet Martinique Mataiea Matete Mette Meyer de Haan Musée d'Orsay Museum of Art Nafea Faa Ipoipo National Gallery Nevermore Night Café Noa Noa November nude Oil on canvas Pahura painter painting Papeete Parisian Paul Cézanne Paul Gauguin Peru PHAIDON COLOUR LIBRARY photograph picture Pissarro Pont-Aven Pouldu primitive Private Collection scene Self-Portrait Seurat sexual subject matter symbol symbolist Tahiti Tahitian Tehamana Theo Van Gogh vahine Vincent Van Gogh Vision wrote to Schuffenecker Yellow Christ
References to this book
Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology Francis Frascina,Charles Harrison,Deirdre Paul No preview available - 1982 |