5.23.2014

Paul Gauguin And Titian Paintings

By Darren Hartley


Paul Gauguin paintings reached broad success in the late 19th century. It was their bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts that set them apart from the work of the contemporaries of Paul. These paintings were the beginning of the Primitivism art movement. Not having any formal training, Paul Gauguin was a French artist who abandoned artistic conventions and simply followed his vision.

At first, Paul started painting only in his spare time but quickly became serious with his work. An important Paris art show, Salon of 1876, accepted one of his works. The Impressionists invited him to exhibit his work with them in 1879. Finally, the Vision of the Sermon, one of the most famous of innovative Paul Gauguin paintings, was completed in 1888.

In 1891, Paul moved to Tahiti and settled among the native people. He combined the native culture with his own to create new, innovative art works. In 1893, he returned to France and showed off some of his Tahitian pieces to mixed responses. He returned to French Polynesia where he created one of the later masterpieces among Paul Gauguin paintings, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, a depiction of the human life cycle.

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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