Word: anquetin
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...trickle for the quarter of a century since Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay. What these influences produced, in the work of Van Gogh, Gauguin and the various painters who were, at one moment or another during the late '80s, linked to their work (among them, Maurice Denis, Louis Anquetin, Emile Bernard, Paul Serusier and Toulouse-Lautrec) was a style known as cloisonism. The French cloison means "division" or "partition," and it was applied to a kind of enamelware whose patches of bright color were separated by fine metal lines. Largely because of the intensity of Van Gogh...
...exhibition includes a large group of major paintings by Van Gogh, mostly from his time in Aries and St.Rémy. They are backed up with an extraordinary selection of some 30 Gauguins and many remarkable paintings by the "disciples"-including Bernard, who turns out, like Anquetin, to have been a painter of real originality who can now be seen without Gauguin's shadow across him. This ambitious curatorial effort is the work of the Canadian art historian Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, and it is without doubt the most visually ravishing and intellectually satisfying museum study of early French modernism...
...terrace on the Place du Forum in Aries (1888), with its harsh contrasting color -deep nocturnal blue against yellow lamplight under the awning, streaks of orange opposing the absinthe green of the cafe tabletops-was both a direct act of natural vision and a tribute to Louis Anquetin's Avenue de Clichy: Five O'clock in the Evening, 1887. Anquetin, drawing on childhood memories of seeing his parental garden through stained-glass lozenges in the front door, had suffused his view of a Paris street in a deep luminous blue, relieved only by the harsh yellow-orange flare...
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