mercredi 28 mai 2014

Paintings Of Paul Gauguin And Titian

By Darren Hartley


The Primitivism art movement was spearheaded by Paul Gauguin paintings featuring bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts. Paul Gauguin was a French artist who enjoyed broad success near the end of the 19th century. He did not follow artistic conventions, having no formal art education, but took the path of his own vision.

1888 saw the birth of one of the most famous Paul Gauguin paintings, the Vision of the Sermon. It was a boldly colored work depicting the Biblical tale of Jacob wrestling with an angel. Prior to this, one of his works was accepted into an important show in Paris entitled Salon of 1876.

Paul began work on creative and innovative art with the fusion of Tahitian culture with his own in 1891. However, these Tahitian pieces were met with mixed interest by Parisian art aficionados in 1893. It was in French Polynesia that one of the later masterpieces among Paul Gauguin paintings was completed. This masterpiece was a review of the life cycle of man.

The first major public commission among Titian Paintings established Tiziano Vecellio's place as the leading painter in Venice. This was the Assumption of The Virgin for the high altar of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. His training with Giorgione was influential to Titian's tonal approach to painting and his atmospheric and evocative landscape style.

The pastoral landscapes among the Titian paintings celebrated the beauty of nature alongside love and music. One particular landscape, Two Satyrs in a Landscape, featured mythological figures in a lush landscape whose untamed beauty contrasted with a carefully balanced arrangement.

The portraits among the Titian paintings were remarkable for their expression of a psychological dimension to their sitters while at the same time suggesting their eminent status and importance. Psychological dimensions are expressed through the portrayal of melancholia and dreamy moods while status and importance are conveyed through depictions of hand and face sensitivity as well as presence monumentality.




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