Gauguin's Pont-Aven period

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Gauguin's Pont-Aven period was a formative phase in Paul Gauguin’s career in the late 1880s in the Breton village of Pont-Aven, marked by bold color, synthetist style, and deeply symbolic, often religious imagery.

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Pont‑Aven period 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artistic period
phase of Paul Gauguin's career
artisticGoal expression of inner ideas rather than optical reality
synthesis of form and color
associatedWith Charles Laval
Meijer de Haan
Paul Sérusier
Pont-Aven School
Émile Bernard
country France
endTime 1889
followedBy Gauguin's Tahiti period
follows Gauguin's Impressionist phase
genre genre painting
religious painting
hasCharacteristic bold color
religious imagery
symbolic imagery
synthetist style
hasPart development of Synthetism
emphasis on inner vision over naturalism
experimentation with flat color areas
simplification of forms
use of dark contour lines
influenced Les Nabis
surface form: Nabis group

Symbolism in painting
modern art
influencedBy Breton folk art
Breton religious traditions
Cloisonnism
Japanese prints
Émile Bernard
locatedIn Brittany
France
Pont-Aven
mainSubject Paul Gauguin
movement Post-Impressionism
Synthetism
notableWork Breton Women in the Meadow
surface form: Breton Girls in a Pasture

Breton Peasants
Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake
The Green Christ
The Yellow Christ
Vision After the Sermon
surface form: Vision after the Sermon
partOf Paul Gauguin's artistic development
startTime 1886
theme Breton peasant life
Catholic devotion
landscape
spiritual symbolism

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The Yellow Christ partOf Gauguin's Pont-Aven period
Gauguin's Tahitian period precededBy Gauguin's Pont-Aven period
this entity surface form: Pont‑Aven period