Friday 30 May 2014

Paul Gauguin Paintings And Titian Paintings

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.

1888 saw the birth of one of the most famous Paul Gauguin paintings, the Vision of the Sermon. It was a boldly colored work depicting the Biblical tale of Jacob wrestling with an angel. Prior to this, one of his works was accepted into an important show in Paris entitled Salon of 1876.

Paul began work on creative and innovative art with the fusion of Tahitian culture with his own in 1891. However, these Tahitian pieces were met with mixed interest by Parisian art aficionados in 1893. It was in French Polynesia that one of the later masterpieces among Paul Gauguin paintings was completed. This masterpiece was a review of the life cycle of man.

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.

The portraits among the Titian paintings are truly remarkable. They not only suggest the status and prominence of their subjects through the implication of an enormity of presence or the suggestion of sensitivity in the face and hands. They also showcase a psychological dimension to them by the display of melancholia or dreaminess in their projected imaging.




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