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...Toronto, a major exhibition of Van Gogh and cloisonism...
...painters-some now familiar to us as secular saints or movie heroes, others still relatively ill-known -who kept venturing out of Paris toward more "primitive" places. Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard ranged among the megaliths, the cold heather and the gaunt folk-Christs in Brittany. Vincent van Gogh pursued what he called "the gravity of great sunlight effects" in Aries...
...great importance to modernism. It meant that artists, impelled by curiosity, were in a sense mimicking the colonial pattern of expansion and appropriation. They were becoming tourists in other ethnic realities, seizing on the distant world and its exotic contents as raw material. Aries in 1888, the year Van Gogh began work there, was more foreign to a Parisian than Tunis is today...
...crude popular woodcuts known as the images d'Epinal and, above all, the Japanese wood-block prints that had been arriving in France in a steady 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...
...five seminal years of this style (1886-91) are the subject of "Vincent van Gogh and the Birth of Cloisonism," an exhibition on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto until March 22, when it moves to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh in Amsterdam. (It will not come to the U.S.) The 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...