Pont-Aven School encompasses works of art influenced by the Breton town of Pont-Aven and its surroundings. Originally the term applied to works created in the artists' colony at Pont-Aven, which started to emerge in the 1850s and lasted until the beginning of the 20th century. Many of the artists were inspired by the works of Paul Gauguin, who spent extended periods in the area in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Their work is frequently characterised by the bold use of pure colour and their Symbolist choice of subject matter.
Paul Gauguin, Watermill in Pont-Aven, 1894, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Robert Wylie: La Sorcière bretonne (1872)
Randolph Caldecott, Pont-Aven, 1881
Paul Sérusier, The Talisman, the Aven at the Bois d'Amour 1888
Pont-Aven is a commune in the Finistère department in the Brittany region in Northwestern France.
Port of Pont-Aven
Watermill in Pont-Aven, by Paul Gauguin, 1894
Port of Pont-Aven