Pont-Aven School

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Pont-Aven School (French: École de Pont-Aven) is a term occupied by works of art iconographically due to Pont-Aven and its surroundings. Originally the term was focusing works of the artists' colony emerging there since the 1850s, and some decades later the work of the group of painters gathering around the artist Paul Gauguin in the early 1890s. Their work is characterised by the bold use of pure colour and Symbolist choice of subject matter.

Contents 1 Background 2 Artists working in Pont-Aven (or Le Pouldu) 3 Resources 3.1 Notes 3.2 References

[edit] Background

Pont-Aven is a village on the southern coast of the Finistère department, some miles from the seashore: there the tide breaks and the River Aven meets the Atlantic Ocean. Since the 1850s, Pont-Aven was frequented by painters who wanted to spend their summers out of the capitals at low budget on picturesque spots, not yet spoilt by tourism. In 1886, Gauguin first campaigned in Pont-Aven. When he returned in 1888, the situation had altered: Pont Aven was already crowded, and so Gauguin looked for an alternative place to work which he found, in 1889, in Le Pouldu (today part of the community of Clohars-Carnoët), some miles off to the East at the mouth of the river Laïta, traditionally the border to the Morbihan departement. There Gauguin, accompanied by Meijer de Haan, Filiger, and for a while by Sérusier, spent the winter 1889/1890 and most of the following months.

[edit] Artists working in Pont-Aven (or Le Pouldu)

• Paul Gauguin 1886, 1888, 1889-1890 and 1894
• Emile Bernard 1888 and 1891-1893
• Charles Laval 1888
• Emile Schuffenecker
• Meijer de Haan
• Władysław Ślewiński
• Paul Sérusier 1888, 1889 (and 1889, 1890)
• Armand Séguin
• Charles Filiger
• Jan Verkade
• Mogens Ballin
• Henry Moret
• Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard
• Gustave Loiseau
• Emile Jourdan
• Jens Ferdinand Willumsen
• Roderic O'Conor
• Maurice Denis
• Robert Bevan 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1894
• Franck C. Penfold circa 1880

[edit] Resources

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Cariou, André: Les Peintres de Pont-Aven, Éditions Ouest-France, Rennes 1994 ISBN 2-7373-1499-2
• Jaworska, Wladyslawa: Gauguin et l'Ecole de Pont-Aven, Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel 1971 (no ISBN); English edition: Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School, Thames and Hudson, London 1972 ISBN 0-500-23169-9; American edition: New York Graphic Society, Greenwich Connecticut 1972 ISBN 0-8212-0438-6
• Bevan, Robert. Robert Bevan 1865-1925. A memoir by his son, Studio Vista, London 1965.