Pont-Aven School
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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 start
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
Synthetism
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Synthetism is a term used by Post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work stylistically from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been con
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…which some believe inspired Gauguin to paint his Vision après le sermon, Bernard claiming he was the first to adopt the approach, which became known as Synthetism. Other artists who stayed with Gauguin, first at the Pension Gloanec in Pont-Aven and later at the Buvette de la Plage in Le Pouldu, were Charles…
The Talisman, by Paul Sérusier, one of the principal works of the Synthetist school
Poster of the 1889 Exhibition of Paintings by the Impressionist and Synthetist Group, at Café des Arts, known as The Volpini Exhibition, 1889.
Paul Gauguin, Les Alyscamps, (1888), Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Paul Gauguin, Vision after the Sermon, 1888.