Synthetism
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Synthetism
Style of painting that developed out of CLOISONNISM and formed a current within SYMBOLISM. It was practised by Paul Gauguin and his circle in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The term derives from the French verb synthétiser (to synthesize) and is based on the idea that art should be a synthesis of three features: the outward appearance of natural forms, the artist’s feelings about his subject and purely aesthetic considerations of line, colour and
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