Saturday, May 24, 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.

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.

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.

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.

It was a celebration of natural beauty blended with love and music that constituted the pastoral landscapes among the Titian paintings. This is very evident in two of Titian's works, Landscape with Goat and Two Satyrs in a Landscape. The latter landscape contrasted the stark beauty of a luscious landscape against mythological figures given a carefully balanced arrangement.

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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