The Pont-Aven School: Cradle of the Modern Sensibility

by Jean-Marie Rouart, Adrien Goetz, Estelle Guille des Buttes-Fresneau

Pont-Aven has lent its name to one of the most famous schools of painting in modern art and is now automatically associated with Paul Gauguin and mile Bernard. In 1888, in this Breton village in southern Finist re, the two painters set about inventing the features of a completely new style of painting: Synthetism. Breaking with academic orthodoxy and heavily influenced by Japanese prints, they introduced novel aesthetic principles distinguished especially...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8874398174
• ISBN13: 9788874398171
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: 5 Continents Editions
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.7" x 11.2"