Thursday, May 29, 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 innovative 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.

Moving to Tahiti in 1891 saw Paul create innovative art by combining native culture with his own. Returning to France in 1893, he exhibited his Tahitian pieces to mixed reactions. Returning to French Polynesia, he completed one of the later masterpieces among Paul Gauguin paintings, which was a study of the human life cycle.

The first major public commission among Titian Paintings established Tiziano Vecellio's place as the leading painter in Venice. This was the Assumption of The Virgin for the high altar of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. His training with Giorgione was influential to Titian's tonal approach to painting and his atmospheric and evocative landscape style.

The pastoral landscapes among the Titian paintings celebrated the beauty of nature alongside love and music. One particular landscape, Two Satyrs in a Landscape, featured mythological figures in a lush landscape whose untamed beauty contrasted with a carefully balanced arrangement.

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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