5/28/2014

Paintings Of Paul Gauguin And Titian

By Darren Hartley


The bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts help Paul Gauguin paintings achieve broad success in the late 19th century. This paved the way for the Primitivism art movement. Paul Gauguin was a famed French artist who didn't have any formal art training. Instead, he simply followed his own vision, abandoning artistic conventions.

At first, Paul started painting only in his spare time but quickly became serious with his work. An important Paris art show, Salon of 1876, accepted one of his works. The Impressionists invited him to exhibit his work with them in 1879. Finally, the Vision of the Sermon, one of the most famous of innovative Paul Gauguin paintings, was completed in 1888.

In 1891, Paul moved to Tahiti and settled among the native people. He combined the native culture with his own to create new, innovative art works. In 1893, he returned to France and showed off some of his Tahitian pieces to mixed responses. He returned to French Polynesia where he created one of the later masterpieces among Paul Gauguin paintings, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, a depiction of the human life cycle.

It was the first major public commission awarded to Tiziano Vecellio that ensured his stature as the leading Venetian painter of his time. Titian paintings are known for their tonal painting approach and their landscape style which was atmospheric at the same time that it was evocative.

The beauty of nature was celebrated in the pastoral landscapes among Titian paintings in combination with love and music. Among these pastoral landscape paintings were Landscape with Goat and Two Satyrs in a Landscape. The latter was a lush landscape featuring mythological figures. The raw beauty of the landscape was contrasted with a carefully balanced arrangement of the figures.

What was remarkable in the portraits among Titian paintings is not only their suggestion of the status and importance of their subjects but their inclusion of a psychological dimension to them. Sensitivity in the hands and face as well as monumentality of presence are among the aspects that connote status and importance. The instigation of a melancholic or dreamy mood in the subjects exposes the mental dimension.




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