History of Art Picks: Cloisonnism
Hello to all the lovely creatures out there!
In today's post we dive agan into art history with the art movement of Cloisonnism! Although you might believe that you are not familiar with this art movement, in reality you have been seeing examples of it in many things in every day life! But lets see what exactly it is about.
Cloisonnism is a style of port-impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours. It was developed by the French artists of the Pont-Aven school, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin that also coined the term on the occasion of the Salon des Independants in March, 1888.
Artists like Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, Paul Gauguin, Paul Sérusier and others started painting in this style in the late 19th century. Cloisonnism suggested that artists use such techniques as raised skyline, lack of detail, rejection of a linear perspective in the picture composition. The principles of this method suppose the rejection of smooth colour transitions and halftones. In the paintings created by cloisonnist artists, the colour fields of the image elements were separated by wide contour lines - while pure colours were designed to enhance the decorative effect of the work.
In general, the use of wide curvy contour lines resembled the cloisonne enamel technique, as well as stained glass art,and made it possible to separate the figures from the background, highlighting individual colour zones. Artists drew ideas from Japanese masters of engraving, taking the contour and brightness of the figurative image from them and complementing it with bright backgrounds.
The technique of cloisonnism anticipated the emergence of such art movements as synthetism, symbolism and cubism. The technique was actively used by the artists who worked in other styles as for a famous example, Paul Signac who is known for being a pathfinder into the art movement of pointillism later on.
Cloisonnism remained as an art movement for some time before new art movements came to replace it relatively early, Nevertheless, its impact can be seen even today, and many artists of the past decided to experiment with this art movement, creating absolutely stunning artworks.
I hope you found it as interesting as I did (ps. a reason I was so interested in it's aso the fact that you can have some very cool posters for decorating your room! You'll be surprised how this kind of art matches so well!) As always thank you for reading and I'll see you in a next post!
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