Monday, May 26, 2014

Paul Gauguin Paintings 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.

At first, Paul started painting only in his spare time but quickly became serious with his work. An important Paris art show, Salon of 1876, accepted one of his works. The Impressionists invited him to exhibit his work with them in 1879. Finally, the Vision of the Sermon, one of the most famous of Paul Gauguin paintings, was completed in 1888.

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 was the first major public commission awarded to Tiziano Vecellio that ensured his stature as the leading Venetian painter of his time. Titian paintings are known for their tonal painting approach and their landscape style which was atmospheric at the same time that it was evocative.

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 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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