Pont-Aven School
The School of Pont -Aven was formed by a group of French painter Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. It was located both in the located in the south of Brittany village of Pont -Aven, as well as in the nearby village of Le Pouldu at the Laïta. The name of the artists' colony was created subsequently.
The works of the painters are characterized by the use of pure, radiant colors and are attributed to post- impressionism.
Importance
Already in the mid-19th century had painters such as Camille Corot and Eugène Boudin, and poets such as Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac Brittany visited, as they offered the rugged, unspoilt countryside of Brittany themes for their works.
Paul Gauguin repeatedly held since the year 1886 in Pont- Aven. Other artists followed - such as Émile Bernard and Paul Sérusier. They sought to overcome the Impressionism. From the School of Pont -Aven grew the artistic movements of the synthetism and Cloisonismus that represent a counter-movement to Impressionism. Her works were highly regarded by the Nabis, the artists of the symbolism and expressionism.
The emphasis of contours and color values among task of plein air painting was a concern of the School of Pont -Aven. The artists created their images partially from memory. What is seen has been reduced to the essential, so that the shape and color reproductions feeling the mood of the painter regardless of the reality.
Gauguin left the Breton artists' colony in 1891 and moved to Tahiti. The School of Pont -Aven remained until about 1896 exist.
In Pont -Aven shows the local, opened in 1985 and the Musée des Beaux -Arts works by artists from Brittany, but also paintings that have the Brittany to the topic. The museum focuses on the period 1860-1970, in both French and international artists who were in the city. Be shown, for example painting by Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin.
Artist in Pont -Aven and Le Pouldu (selection)
- Cuno Amiet (1868-1961)
- Louis Anquetin (1861-1932)
- Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)
- Mogens Ballin (1872-1914)
- Émile Bernard (1868-1941)
- Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928)
- Louis Cabat (1812-1893)
- Delavallée Henri (1862-1943)
- Maurice Denis (1870-1943)
- Charles Filiger (1863-1928)
- Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
- Marcel Gromaire (1892-1971)
- Charles Laval (1862-1894)
- Maxime Maufra (1861-1918)
- Jacob Meijer de Haan (1852-1895)
- Emile Schuffenecker (1851-1943)
- Armand Séguin (1869-1903)
- Paul Sérusier (1864-1927)
- Władysław Slewinski (1856-1918)
- January Verkade (1868-1946)
- Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919)