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The French artist Emile Bernard joins the ranks of the great French painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne.
Emile was ten years old when his parents moved the centre of the family life to Paris. After a few years, the young Bernard was drawn to the art scene of the French capital. His views were rebellious, innovative and not compatible with conservative ideas of art. Emil met with little acceptance and was excluded from the studio of the painter Fernand Cormon. Emile Bernard began to travel through France and met like-minded people. In Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin he found companions who supported his bold theories. Especially with van Gogh a lively correspondence took place.
Bernard experimented with new painting techniques. Inspired by Japanese woodblock prints and Cloisonism, he worked with strong contours and demarcated areas of colour. The characterization of the individual pictorial elements was his goal. The form of representation broke away from Impressionism with its colour transitions and the figures immersing in the picture. The symbiosis of Cloisonism and Symbolism gave birth to the art movement of Sythetism. Together with Gaugin, the artists founded the art form to which Bernard remained true. A typical painting of this art form is Les Bretonnes aux Ombrelles.
The French artist Emile Bernard joins the ranks of the great French painters Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne.
Emile was ten years old when his parents moved the centre of the family life to Paris. After a few years, the young Bernard was drawn to the art scene of the French capital. His views were rebellious, innovative and not compatible with conservative ideas of art. Emil met with little acceptance and was excluded from the studio of the painter Fernand Cormon. Emile Bernard began to travel through France and met like-minded people. In Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin he found companions who supported his bold theories. Especially with van Gogh a lively correspondence took place.
Bernard experimented with new painting techniques. Inspired by Japanese woodblock prints and Cloisonism, he worked with strong contours and demarcated areas of colour. The characterization of the individual pictorial elements was his goal. The form of representation broke away from Impressionism with its colour transitions and the figures immersing in the picture. The symbiosis of Cloisonism and Symbolism gave birth to the art movement of Sythetism. Together with Gaugin, the artists founded the art form to which Bernard remained true. A typical painting of this art form is Les Bretonnes aux Ombrelles.