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Cloisonnism (Late 19th Century)
About Cloisonnism
Description of Cloisonnism
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About Cloisonnism
Description of Cloisonnism |
Cloisonnism
Style
of
painting
practised
in
the
late
1880s
by
such
French
artists
as
LOUIS
ANQUETIN,
EMILE
BERNARD,
Paul
Gauguin
and
PAUL
SÉRUSIER.
Essentially
it
involves
the
use
of
strongly
outlined
planes
of
minimally
modelled,
bright
colour
with
simplified
drawing.
These
features
undermine
the
three-dimensionality
both
of
individual
objects
and
of
the
pictorial
space.
Cloisonnism
represented
the
rejection
of
trompe
l’oeil
painting
in
favour
of
an
attempt
to
express
the
inner
character
of
the
subject-matter.
Its
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