Cloisonismo gauguin biography

Emile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, The School of Pont-Aven

Gauguin may have seen Anquetin and Bernard's work displayed at the Grand Restaurant-Bouillon towards the end of 1887.

Certainly, by the summer of 1888, he was working with them in Pont-Aven in Brittany, and though he never adopted the Cloisonnist practice of separating forms with heavy outlines, his key painting of the period, Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1888, National Gallery, London), clearly shows the Cloisonnist influence in its dramatic juxtapositions of saturated colours.

Bernard and Anquetin's first paintings of 1886 and 1887 had taken urban themes, but in Pont-Aven, sharing ideas with Gauguin, they applied their new technique to genre paintings depicting the simple life of Breton peasants, as well as classical and Biblical images, to produce full-blown Cloisonnist works.

These would have a decisive influence on avant-garde art of the 1900s. Indeed,