fetishofsilence reblogged
Émile Bernard, Breton Peasants in a Meadow, 1892
Bernard’s simplified, colour-blocked style (known as Cloisonnism) was a major influence on fellow avant-garde artist Paul Gauguin (the similarities between the two are visible in his 1888 work Vision After the Sermon), who also left the city to paint the rural people of the countryside. For Bernard, Gaugin, and other modern artists, this was part of an attempt to ‘get away’ from crowded, fast-paced, industrialized modern life in the city in order to draw inspiration from a simpler, more natural ‘primitive’ existence.
