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CONTRIBUTION OF NEOIMPRESSIONISTS
1.W 1886 r. at the last exhibition of the Impressionist group (8 Painting exhibition with the participation of Mrs. Marie Bracquemond, Panny Mary Cassatt, Gentlemen of Degas, Showman, Gauguin, Guillaumin, Pani Berthe Morisot, Gentlemen Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro, Odilon …
Conviction, that the neo-impressionists are painters, who cover their canvases with small dots of variegation, is a very common mistake. We'll prove it later, but we are already stating, that this irrelevant scoring method has nothing to do with the aesthetics of the painters, which we undertake to defend, nor with …
PAUL CÉZANNE (1859—1906)
Born in Aix-en-Provence. In the youthful period of creativity (up to a year 1872) remains mainly under the spell of Delacroix and Courbet. At that time, he created mainly portraits and figural compositions on romantic-erotic themes., painted with thick impasses, violent strokes of the brush in the dark generally …
PAUL GAUGUIN (1848—1905)
Born in Paris. He spends the years 1851—55 with his family in the capital of Peru, Limie. After graduating from school, he is a sailor for several years; w 1871 r "becomes an official of Bertina's bank in Paris, gaining a favorable material situation. Then he marries …
Paul Gauguin – letter to Charles Moricea
Charles Morice (1861-1919), critic and writer from the circle of symbolists, friend of Gauguin. Noa-Noa, first published in La Revue Blanche” in October 1897 r., had two authors: to Gauguin's text, constituting his …
Andre Fontainas (1865-1948), art critic, associated in the 1980s with the "Revue Independante" community. In January 1899 r. published an article about Gauguin in "Mercure de France". Gauguin replied with a letter, which we publish. It was the beginning of the correspondence between them. Not long before Gauguin died …
Paul Gauguin – letter to wife.
Tahiti, 8 of December 1892 r.
[…] Of course, many images will be incomprehensible and you will have something to laugh about. I will explain to you the most unbelievable of them, this one anyway, which I wish to keep or sell for dear, that's it …
Paul Gauguin – letters to Émile Bernard.
[Arles, November 1888]
Dear Bernard,
I forgot your father's letter and you must have understood none of it. But this time you will learn about everything. I hope, that you don't get too much trouble with …
VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853—1890)
Born in Groot-Zundert in the Netherlands. He was the son of a pastor. He studied theology, then he carried out a missionary activity among miners in Brabant. He chose the profession of a painter when he was years old 27.
The artistic creativity of van Gogh closes in the years 1880—1890. For the first six …
Paul Cezanne – Letters to Emile Bernard