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Cloisonnism

A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art | 1999 | | Copyright

Cloisonnism. Style of painting associated with some of the painters who worked at the artists' colony at Pont-Aven at Brittany in the 1880s and 1890s, characterized by dark outlines enclosing areas of bright, flat colour, in the manner of stained glass or cloisonné enamel (cloison is French for ‘partition'). Anquetin and Bernard first developed the style, and Gauguin also worked in it. The term was coined by the critic Édouard Dujardin (1861–1949) in an article on Anquetin published in 1888 and has remained in use for work in a similar style done in the 20th century.

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Cloisonnism

The Oxford Dictionary of Art | 2004 | | Copyright

Cloisonnism. Style of painting associated with some of the painters who worked at Pont-Aven at Brittany in the 1880s and 1890s, characterized by dark outlines enclosing areas of bright, flat colour, in the manner of stained glass or cloisonné enamel (cloison is French for ‘partition’). Anquetin and Bernard first developed the style, and Gauguin also worked in it. The term was coined by the critic Édouard Dujardin in 1888.

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Cloisonnism

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists | 2003 | | Copyright

Cloisonnism (from Fr., cloison: ‘partition’). Style of painting associated with some of the painters who worked at Pont-Aven at Brittany in the 1880s and 1890s, characterized by dark outlines enclosing areas of bright, flat colour, in the manner of stained glass or cloisonné enamel. Anquetin and Bernard first developed the style, and Gauguin also worked in it. The term was coined by the critic Édouard Dujardin in 1888.

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IAN CHILVERS. "Cloisonnism." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-Cloisonnism.html

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