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Gauguin: Portraits (Hardcover)
Cornelia Homburg, Christopher Riopelle; Contributions by Elizabeth Childs, Dario Gamboni, Linda Goddard, …
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The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin's portraits, revealing
how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and
exciting ways Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted
conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding
of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than
in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all
phases of his career. Bringing together more than 60 of Gauguin's
portraits in a wide variety of media that includes painting, works
on paper, and sculpture, this handsomely illustrated volume is the
first focused investigation of the multifaceted ways the artist
approached the subject. Essays by a group of international experts
consider how the artist's conception of portraiture evolved as he
moved between Brittany and Polynesia. They also examine how Gauguin
infused his work with symbolic meaning by taking on different roles
like the Christ figure and the savage in his self-portraits and by
placing his models in suggestive settings with alluring attributes.
This welcome addition to the scholarship on one of the 19th
century's most innovative and controversial artists reveals
fascinating insights into the crucial role that portraiture played
in Gauguin's overall artistic practice.
Vincent van Gogh explores the life and work of the troubled
artistic genius, brought close to the brink of madness, who left
one of the most startling artistic legacies of the late nineteenth
century when, in 1890, he took his own life. It follows the path
that led him from his early attempts to forge a career, via his
initial foray into the world of art during which he produced his
famous earthy portrayals of Dutch peasants, such as The Potato
Eaters, to the inspiration of colour and new styles that he
discovered in Paris, to the sunlight of Provence with its fierce
blues and yellows, and his final days in the village of
Auvers-sur-Oise. Gloriously illustrated with such classics as his
favourite Sunflowers, Starry Night and his self-portraits, it also
contains rare documents such as van Gogh's letters to his brother
and sister, the medical analysis of his illness and the
announcement card of the artist's death in 1890.
A breath-taking masterpiece Cincinnati Art Museum's Undergrowth
with Two Figures, is one of the twelve ambitious panoramic
landscapes Vincent van Gogh created during the last, highly
productive, weeks of his life in the summer of 1890, whilst staying
at Auvers, just north of Paris. It has recently been restored and
now provides the focus and the springboard for this book. Nine
works by Van Gogh and a further fourteen by his contemporaries,
including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro,
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and Paul
Cezanne, reveal how all of these artists attempted to capture the
subtle and transient effects of light on foliage and the feeling of
walking under the forest canopy, the "sous-bois".
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