Rabu, 28 Mei 2014

Paul Gauguin And Titian Paintings

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.

In 1891, Paul moved to Tahiti and settled among the native people. He combined the native culture with his own to create new, innovative art works. In 1893, he returned to France and showed off some of his Tahitian pieces to mixed responses. He returned to French Polynesia where he created one of the later masterpieces among Paul Gauguin paintings, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, a depiction of the human life cycle.

It did not take long for Tiziano Vecellio to be considered as the leading painter of Venice. It took only his first major public commission to do that. His early training under Giorgione was responsible for Titian paintings to have that tonal approach to them. Likewise, this training was the culprit for the atmospheric and evocative style to his landscape artworks.

It was a celebration of natural beauty blended with love and music that constituted the pastoral landscapes among the Titian paintings. This is very evident in two of Titian's works, Landscape with Goat and Two Satyrs in a Landscape. The latter landscape contrasted the stark beauty of a luscious landscape against mythological figures given a carefully balanced arrangement.

The portraits among the Titian paintings are truly remarkable. They not only suggest the status and prominence of their subjects through the implication of an enormity of presence or the suggestion of sensitivity in the face and hands. They also showcase a psychological dimension to them by the display of melancholia or dreaminess in their projected imaging.




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