Editing Paul Gauguin (section)

=== Cloisonnism and synthetism ===
[[File:Affiche Volpini.jpg|thumb|Poster of the 1889 Exhibition of Paintings by the [[Impressionist]] and [[Synthetism|Synthetist Group]], at Café des Arts, known as [[The Volpini Exhibition, 1889]]]]
Under the influence of [[folk art]] and [[Ukiyo-e|Japanese prints]], Gauguin's work evolved towards [[Cloisonnism]], a style given its name by the critic [[Édouard Dujardin]] to describe [[Émile Bernard]]'s method of painting with flat areas of colour and bold outlines, which reminded Dujardin of the Medieval [[cloisonné]] enameling technique. Gauguin was very appreciative of Bernard's art and of his daring with the employment of a style which suited Gauguin in his quest to express the essence of the objects in his art.<ref name=twsJun10b>{{cite news
 |author=<!--Not stated-->
 |title= Gauguin, Paul
 |work= [[The New York Times]]
 |quote= With the artist Emile Bernard, Gauguin invented a method of rendering pictoral space that uses large patches of flat color and thick line; these techniques influenced early 20th-century artists. Gauguin's works include Vision after the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1888), Mahana no atua (Day of the God) (1814), and Savage Tales (1902).
 |year= 2004
 |url= http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/g/paul_gauguin/index.html
 |access-date=10 June 2010}}</ref>

In Gauguin's ''[[The Yellow Christ]]'' (1889), often cited as a quintessential Cloisonnist work, the image was reduced to areas of pure colour separated by heavy black outlines. In such works Gauguin paid little attention to classical perspective and boldly eliminated subtle gradations of colour, thereby dispensing with the two most characteristic principles of post-[[Renaissance]] painting. His painting later evolved towards [[Synthetism]] in which neither form nor colour predominate but each has an equal role.

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File:Gauguin Il Cristo giallo.jpg|''[[The Yellow Christ]] (Le Christ jaune)'', 1889, [[Albright–Knox Art Gallery]], Buffalo, NY
File:Gauguin, Paul - Still Life with Profile of Laval - Google Art Project.jpg|''[[Still Life with Profile of Laval]]'' ([[Charles Laval]]), 1886, [[Indianapolis Museum of Art]]
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